2. (loan) (noun) try (rugby and rugby league), score.
Ka purei anō he kaha tō tētahi, ā riro ana i a Levin, tīmi Pākehā te wini o tā rāua pakanga ko te Māori ko te wini tēnei e rua tarai kotahi kōura ki te tarai o Horowhenua (TJ 11/5/1899:12). / When they played again one was stronger and Levin, the Pākehā team, won their battle with the Māori team, the win being two tries and a goal to Horowhenua’s try.
topa tahi
1. (noun) first five-eighth, fly-half, stand-off half (rugby and rugby league).
See also topatahi
kakari
1. (verb) to battle, fight, agitate for.
Nō rāua ka kakari ki te tono kia whakatūria he kura tuarua mō tō rātau rohe, ka tukua e Whina he whenua raorao hei whakatū kura i Panguru, e ono eka te rahi (TTR 1998:17). / They battled for a secondary school to be established for their area and Whina donated six acres of flat land at Panguru as the site for the school.
2. (noun) fight, battle, skirmish, conflict, clash, fighting.
I te pakanga o Takrouna, tino kitea ai te kaha o te kakari, te toa takitahi o ngā hōia (TTR 2000:114). / At the battle of Takrouna the intensity of the fighting and the individual gallantry was very evident.
Synonyms: kawe a riri, riri, kekeritanga, pakanga, tatauranga, kakaritanga, matawhāura, parekura, putakari, riringa, nguha
3. (noun) scrum (rugby).
Synonyms: kirimiti
ketuketu
1. (verb) (-a,-ngia,-tia) to scratch around, delve into, fossick, ferret out.
Ko te moni e tukua mai ana e aua Pākehā hei utu mō ā mātou kai, ko te hanga kākahu pirau e rukea ake nei i te tāone nei, nā rātou pea i hamu, i ketuketu i roto i ngā takahanga waewae o te hanga tini kaumātua Pākehā e noho nei i te tāone, mauria ake nei e rātou hei utu mō ā mātou kai (MM.TKM 30/11/1860:49). / The only money provided by those Pākehā as payment for our produce are the rotten clothes which are rejected in this town; probably what they have scavenged and ferreted out of the rubbish trodden under the feet of the many elderly Pākehā people living in this town, which they bring to us as payment for our produce.
2. (noun) ruck (rugby).
Synonyms: paraketu
kirimiti
1. (loan) (noun) scrum (rugby).
He hāwhe-pēke ia mō Pōneke i te tau 1891, ā, nā reira i whakatupuria te tūranga kauaro-pākau, kia kore ai e āhei te whakararu i te maka paoro atu i te take o te kirimiti (TTR 1994:19). / He was a half-back for Wellington in 1891, and from there developed the wing-forward position as a guard for the pass from the base of the scrum.
Synonyms: kakari
rārangi ki waho
1. (noun) line-out (rugby).
Synonyms: whakarārangi
rārangi poto
1. (noun) short line-out (rugby).
Synonyms: whakarārangi poto
2. (loan) (noun) league.
I a Rātana e noho ana i Pārihi, haere kē ana a Moko ki te ārahi i tētehi rōpū ki Hinīwa i runga i te tūmanako ka āhei rātau ki te whakatakoto i te petihana nei ki te aroaro o te Rīki o ngā Iwi o te Ao (TTR 1998:113). / While Rātana stayed in Paris, Moko went instead to lead a deputation to Geneva with the intention of presenting a petition to the League of Nations.
2. (noun) high tackle (rugby).
2. (noun) late tackle (rugby).
