2. (noun) sheep.
Ko te huruhuru pirikahu hei whatu i te mea mahana mā koutou, ko te muka, hei whatu i te kareko - ka oti te whatu mā ngā wāhine e tuitui (TK 1/6/1844:26). / Sheep's wool will be woven into something warm for you and flax fibre will be woven into calico - when they're woven the women will sew them.
Synonyms: hipi
3. (noun) biddy-bid, Acaena anserinifolia - a creeping plant with prickly brown burrs.
Ko tōna rongoā mō te hahaetanga he whakapiripiri he mea mahi mai i te pūtake harakeke, he wai rongoā rānei nō te pirikahu mai (TTR 1998:170). / Her ointment for lacerations was a flax root poultice or a potion made from the Biddybid plant.
See also hutiwai
Synonyms: piriwhetau, kaikaiārure, piripiri, kaiārurerure, hutiwai, kaiā
hipi
1. (noun) sheep.
Ko ngā utu ēnei o te hoko o te kau, o te hipi, o te hōiho, i Ākarana (TW 5/8/1874:3). / These are the sale prices for cows, sheep and horses in Auckland.
Synonyms: pirikahu
2. (loan) (interjection) Sheepo – a shearer’s call for the catching pen to be refilled.
Ka haere ia ki te hopu hipi māna, i reira ka hāparangi te waha, “Hīpō! He hipi anō!” (TAH 35:18). / He went to catch another sheep and called out, “Sheepo! Some more sheep, please!”
pirihō
1. (loan) (noun) fleece-o, fleece-picker - person who picks up the fleece when the sheep has been shorn and spreads it on the table.
Mai i ngā kaikutikuti, tae noa ki ngā pirihō, ki ngā perehimana, ki te kuki i tōna kāuta, kei te haere te mahi, kei te haere (TAH 35:17). / From the shearers right down to the fleecos, to the pressmen, to the cook in her kitchen, the work continues.
katikati
1. (loan) (verb) (-a) to bite frequently, nibble.
Ka noho ki Katikati. Ka kai rātou i reira. Pau ana ngā hoa, katikati tonu a Tama. Waiho tonu iho hei ingoa mō tērā wāhi, a Katikati-a-Tamatekapua (JPS 1985:139). / They stopped at Katikati, where they ate and when his companions had finished eating, Tama was still nibbling, and Katikati-a-Tamatekapua (Tamatekapua's nibbling) became the name for that place.
Synonyms: tītongi, hārau, honihoni, honi, hohoni, kōhonihoni, kakai, tītongitongi, kōtamu
2. (loan) (verb) (-a) to cut, shear (sheep, etc.).
I tētahi teihana katikati hipi i Tanaitini, Waipounamu mate katoa ngā kaikatikati, e whā tekau rātou, i te paitini nō ngā pīwhi tote, engari e mea ana ngā tākuta ka ora katoa aua tangata (HTK 3/2/1894:2). / At a shearing station in Dunedin, South Island all the shearers became sick, 40 of them were poisoned by salted beef, but the doctors think they will all survive.
Synonyms: kuti, kutikuti, whakaiho, waruwaru, tītaha, whakatītaha
3. (loan) (verb) (-a) to shut, close - of a number of things.
I whakanuia te rā o te nehu, ka katikatia ngā pēke, me ngā toa (TTR 1990:255). / The day of the burial was honoured with the banks and shops being closed.
Synonyms: kopiti, kati, kopi, tūtaki, tūtakitaki, kokopi, uaki, tūtataki, whakakopiti, kore
4. (loan) (verb) (-a) to shuffle cards, cut (a pack of cards).
Synonyms: riwhi, riwhiriwhi
5. (loan) (noun) scissors, shearing.
Ko taua mahi hoki, ko te katikati, he mahi mate te ringaringa, me te tuarā, me ngā wāhi katoa o te tangata (TWM 17/10/1863:2). / That occupation, shearing, affects the arms, back and all parts of a person.
