paea
1. (loan) (noun) flint.
Hānuere 16 – Hihiri, 60 tana, nō Taranaki, nō Kāwhia kei Mānuka, 3 pouaka, 1 takai wamu, 1 kēhi āporo, 2 tana aniana, 6 poaka, 1 pēke paea, me ngā mea whawhai, 2 tāngata eke mai (TKM 29/1/1852:2). / Jan. 16 – Cicely, 60 tons, from Taranaki and Kāwhia, at Manukau, with 3 boxes, 1 package bacon, 1 case apples, 2 tons onions, 6 pigs, 1 bag flints, a quantity of fire-arms, 2 passengers.
paea
1. (noun) swordfish, Xiphias gladius - a large fish up to 4.45 m long weighing up to 540 kg. Snout has long, broad, sword-like bill. Eyes and mouth are large and fins rigid. Dark brown or grey to blue-black or purple-black above and whitish with silvery sheen below and dark fins. Found throughout the world in tropical to temporate seas. Eats smaller fish and squid.
Hinerangi, Te Paea
1. (personal name) Guide Sophia (1830-34?-1911) Ngāti Ruanui; famous guide at the Pink and White Terraces at Lake Rotomahana, before the Tarawera-Rotomahana eruption in 1886, and then at Whakarewarewa.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 34;)
I te pō o te 10 o Hune 1886, arā, i te pō o te hū, e 62 ngā tāngata i whakaruruhia e Te Paea i tōna whare i Te Wairoa (TTR 1994:25). / On the night of 10 June 1886, that is the night of the eruption, Sophia sheltered 62 people in her house at Te Wairoa.
