2. (loan) (modifier) milking.
Ko ngā kau miraka, mehemea he tangata hokohoko miraka, ka tirohia anō āna kau (TJ 21/6/1898:2). / With milking cows, if there’s a person selling milk then his cows are inspected.
Synonyms: kutētētanga, kutētē, whakatētē, whakatētētanga, mirakatanga, kurutētē
3. (loan) (noun) milk.
Ko ngā kau miraka, mehemea he tangata hokohoko miraka, ka tirohia anō āna kau (TJ 21/6/1898:2). / With milking cows, if there’s a person selling milk then his cows are inspected.
whare miraka
1. (loan) (noun) milking shed, cowshed.
Whakawhiwhia ana a Maata ki tētahi pūtea tārewa nei a te Tari Māori i te tau 1941, arā, hei hanga whare miraka hou, hei hoko mīhini mai hoki mō roto (TTR 2000:29). / In 1941 Martha received a loan from the Native Department to build a new milking shed and to buy the machines for it.
mīhini miraka kau
1. (loan) (noun) milking machine.
Nō te tau 1917 i tīmata tana mahi, e hia tau kē nei te roa, i te tari o ngā huānga o tōna pāpā, o Mason rāua ko Struthers mā i te wāhanga whakaterāwhiti o te tiriti o Custom i Ākarana, he kamupene mātanga, he hanga mīhini miraka kau nei te mahi (TTR 2000:259). / In 1917 she began her long working career in the offices of her father’s relatives, Mason, Struthers and Company, in Custom Street East, Auckland, specialists in making machines.
See also mīhini kutētē kau
Synonyms: mīhini kutētē kau
