2. (noun) weapon, arms.
Heoti anō, maranga katoa ana, tahuri tonu ki te kōhuru kino i ngā wāhine, i ngā tamariki kāhore nei i whai ringa hei karo (MM.TKM 15/7/1858:2). / However, they rose up and set about murdering the women and children who had no weapons for protection.
kapu ringa
1. (noun) biscuit star, Pentagonaster pulchellus - a starfish shaped and coloured like a fancy biscuit. The pairs of rounded knobs at each extremity have a slightly browned appearance. Attains a diameter of about 75 mm. Fairly common cast ashore on South Island and southern North Island sandy beaches.
ringa kamakama
1. (noun) light-fingered person, pickpocket, shoplifter, thief.
Kia tūpato ki taua wahine, he ringa kamakama. I panaia ia i tana mahi i tērā tau. / Be careful with that woman, she's a light-fingered person. She was fired from her job last year.
Synonyms: kaiā
2. (noun) miser, miserly person, skinflint.
Ki te kīia te tangata he ringa poto, kua mōhio koe he matapiko taua tangata (HKK 1999:187). / If a person is called a 'ringa poto' you know that that person is a skinflint.
Synonyms: kaikoropeke, kaiponu, matapiko, pitokite, makitaunu, porokaihākere, atuapo, kaihākere
3. (noun) shorthand.
Ko ngā tamariki e uru ana ki tō runga kura o Hukarere e ākona ana ki te taka kai, ki te nēhi tūroro, ki te tuhituhi ringa poto (TKO 1/12/1917:12). / The children entering the upper school of Hukarere are being taught to prepare food, to nurse the sick and to write shorthand.
Synonyms: ringapoto
ringa rehe
1. (modifier) skilled, skilful, accomplished, practiced, competent, proficient - especially in crafts. Sometimes written as one word, ringarehe.
Kātahi ka whakaritea anō he wahine māna, arā, ka whakamoea ia ki a Te Urikore (ko Te Taupoki tētahi o ōna īngoa), he wahine whānui nei tōna mōhio ki ngā tikanga me ngā kōrero tuku iho a Ngāi Tūhoe – me te aha – he wahine ringa rehe ki ngā mahi toi o te raranga me te whatu (TTR 1998:196). / Then another wife was arranged for him and he married Te Urikore (otherwise known as Te Taupoki), a woman with extensive knowledge of Tūhoe customs and history and a woman who was skilled in the arts of platting and weaving.
See also rehe
Synonyms: matatau, kaiaka, tohunga, Kei a ... mō te ..., toa, kei a [koe] mō te ..., tareka, waewae kai pakiaka, riwha, taea
2. (noun) expert, deft hand, craftsperson, dab hand, professional.
Kātuarehe: He wā anō whakamahia ai tēnei kupu hei whakaahua i te tangata, ā, e tohu ana he nui ōna pūmanawa, he ringarehe rānei, he tangata rānei kua puta tōna rongo (HKK 1999:30). / Kātuarehe: At other times this word is used to show what a person is like, and to indicate that she has many talents, or skills, or is a person who has become famous.
Synonyms: ringa ngaio, mātanga, ngaio, ringa whaiutu
