kareao
1. (noun) supplejack, Ripogonum scandens - a high-climbing, woody native plant with tough pliant stems used in the construction of hīnaki, etc. Longish leaves are opposite, toothless, with obvious lengthwise parallel veins and the round fruit bright red. Stem is usually finger-thick, smooth and almost black.
I a ia e haere ana mā te ngāherehere, ka powhiwhi ia i te kareao (TTR 1990:94). / While making his way through the bush, he became entangled in supplejack vines.
2. (noun) long bag for squeezing tītoki seeds - to extract the oil.
3. (noun) oil from the tītoki berries.
4. (noun) device of platted kareao used for crushing hīnau berries.
Kia āta whakawiri i te ngehingehi (W 1971:232). / Twist the hīnau crusher carefully. (A saying for someone whose voice has given out a harsh sound and referring to the harsh noise of the hīnau crusher.)
5. (noun) net for catching eels.
tīrango
1. (noun) sound-pitching instrument - swung around the head like a pūrerehua. Made by bending a thin piece of kareao (supplejack stem) in the form of a bow and fastening to its two ends as a bowstring a strip of the base of a raupō leaf. A short cord is attached to one end of the bow and when the tīrango is swung through the air it produces the sound from the vibration of the thin edge of the raupō leaf. The sound is similar to that of the rango (blowfly), hence the name.
2. (noun) bird snare - consists of a noose operated by a spring of kareao, supplejack.
Ko te weka, he tūpaki te patu o tēnā, he tawhiti (W 1971:456). / For the weka, a snare, a trap, will kill that.
