2. (verb) to be idling, loafing.
Kei ngā kāinga e kaweka haere ana (W 1971:111). / They're at their homes loafing about.
3. (noun) ridge (of a hill).
He taupae hiwi kōhatu e takoto ana i waenganui, i te taha nōta puta noa ki te taha tonga. E rua ngā keokeonga o taua kaweka e neke ake ana i te kotahi mano putu te teitei (TWMNT 9/3/1875:56). / A range of rocky hills lies in the middle from the northern side to the southern. There are two peaks of that ridge that are over one thousand feet high.
4. (noun) crest, pinnacle.
Kia ora koutou i tēnei tau hou kia piki, kia kake, kia maiangi ki te kaweka o tēnei taonga, o te tika (KO 15/1/1885:1). / New Year greetings to you all and may you climb, ascend and rise to the pinnacle of this quality, of righteousness.
Synonyms: keokeo, tāpuhipuhi, karamata, poutūmārōtanga, tāmore, kōmata o te rangi, poutūmārō, karamatamata
5. (noun) indefinite answer.
Tinihangatia ana te whakahokinga atu ki te hunga pātai mai, whakaawangawangatia ana te kupu, kia hē rawa ake i tētahi kaweka, kua waiho i tētahi kaweka te tikanga, kia tika ai, kei kīia kua hē te matakite a te tohunga (MM.TKM 15/6/1857:4). / The responses to the interrogators were devious with confusing answers, and if one indirect answer was incorrect another meaning could be taken in case it could be said that the prediction of the priest was incorrect.
6. (noun) indirect line of descent.
huri kaweka
1. (verb) to be destroyed, devastated, ruined.
Ka nui te mate o ngā Māori o Kaituna, Rangiuru, Maketū, i ngā waipuke o ngā rā tīmatanga o Pēpuere. I ngaro katoa te whenua i te wai, huri kaweka, huri maunga, ngaro ana te kai ki te kore, ka mate rawa ngā Māori, tahuri atu, tahuri mai ngā mātua ki ngā tamariki, ngā tamariki ki ngā mātua, he tangi te taonga, he roimata ngā kai nui i te mea kua kore rawa he oranga mō rātou i te tau hou e haere mai nei (TWMNT 27/3/1877:78). / The Māori of Kaituna, Rangiuru and Maketū, have suffered severely from floods in the early days of February. The land was all submerged, all the crops destroyed, and the Māori reduced to a state of utter destitution. Parents and children turned to each other and wept tears of despair because there was no livelihood for them in the approaching year.
2. (noun) change of attitude.
Engari ka hihira a 'Te Wānanga', te nūpepa o te kaupapa Whakahētanga Hoko Whenua, ki a Te Kākākura rāua ko Wī Kātene mō tō rāua huri kaweka i te ekenga ki te Kaunihera Matua (TTR 1994:80). / But 'Te Wananga', the newspaper of the Repudiationist Movement, became suspicious of Te Kākākura and Wī Kātene for their change of attitude towards the Executive Council.
