puke
1. (noun) ship - short for kaipuke.
I rere atu te puke rā i Kuipeka, i te 17, he tā tika i reira, he muri hauāuru, mau tonu taua kōmurimuri i te awa o Hana Ranena, ā, te Koru (TKM 17/6/1852:2). / The ship left Quebec about the 17th with a light favourable wind from the westward, which continued with her down the St Lawrence to the Gulf.
Synonyms: tima, motu, kaipuke, pora, pahī, kaipuke pūngao-karihi, wakatauā, wakatauā karihi, wakatauā whakatakere
kaipuke
1. (noun) ship.
Ko ō rātou hū he kiri kekeno, ko ngā kākahu he kiri kekeno anō, ko ngā toenga o ngā hēra o te kaipuke (TP 12/1907:2). / Their shoes were of seal skins, their clothes were also of seal skins and the remnants of the ship's sail.
See also puke
Synonyms: tima, motu, pora, puke, pahī, kaipuke pūngao-karihi, wakatauā, wakatauā karihi, wakatauā whakatakere
wakatauā karihi
1. (noun) nuclear-armed ship.
Synonyms: tima, motu, kaipuke, pora, puke, pahī, kaipuke pūngao-karihi, wakatauā, wakatauā whakatakere
2. (noun) naval ship.
Synonyms: tima, motu, kaipuke, pora, puke, pahī, kaipuke pūngao-karihi, wakatauā karihi, wakatauā whakatakere
3. (noun) warship.
wakatauā whakatakere
1. (noun) submarine warship.
Synonyms: tima, motu, kaipuke, pora, puke, pahī, kaipuke pūngao-karihi, wakatauā, wakatauā karihi
pora
1. (modifier) foreign.
Kite toto, kau ana te tangata pora i te wai, te tāne, te wāhine te tamariki, ko te whakahē tēnei a Heke i te whakaoatitanga i te tangata me te whenua (TJ 25/1/1898:4). / Seeing blood, the strangers swam in the water, men, women and children; this was Heke’s objection to the oath of the people and the land.
2. (noun) large ocean-going canoe, ship.
He matau nāhaku i riua mai i runga o Rangiātea i ngā pora rā e, i rere mai i tawhiti (JPS 1898:172). / A fish-hook of mine brought from Rangiātea in those large sea-going canoes that sailed here from afar.
Synonyms: hūhunu, tima, motu, kaipuke, puke, pahī, kaipuke pūngao-karihi, wakatauā, wakatauā karihi, wakatauā whakatakere
3. (noun) stranger, foreigner.
E kīia ana e ngā tīpuna, e ngā mātua he pora atua. Nō te kitenga i te Pākehā ka kīia e ngā mātua he tangata pora, koia māua tēnei iwi a Ngāi Tahu; koia i karanga ai he tangata pora, tae noa atu ki te kaipuke he pora e rere i te moana (TPH 30/12/1900:4). / The ancestors and parents said that they were god-like foreigners. When they saw the Pākehā the parents said they were foreign people, that's why we, the tribe of Ngāi Tahu call them 'tangata pora' (foreign people), including the sailing ship which is a 'pora' sailing the ocean.
tima
1. (loan) (noun) ship, steamer, ferry.
E rere tonu ana tēnei tima, atu anō i Nēpia ki Te Wairoa, ka paki te rangi te rere ai (TW 3/6/1876:224). / This steamer travels from Napier to Te Wairoa, when the weather is fine.
Synonyms: motu, kaipuke, pora, puke, pahī, kaipuke pūngao-karihi, wakatauā, wakatauā karihi, wakatauā whakatakere
2. (loan) (noun) steam engine, train, sawmill.
Ko te take i pēnei ai he rerekē tōna tima, he tāpaina (TP 10/1904:10). / The reason it is like that is that its steam engine is different, being a turbine.
Synonyms: mira kani rākau
motu
1. (verb) (-hia,-kia) to sever, cut, cut off, set free, separate.
I reira e motukia ana te kāwai o Rukupō (TTR 1994:98). / Thus Rukupo's line of descent was severed.
Synonyms: tuku, wete, wetewete, wewete, hātepe, hāporo, hauporo, tuakoi, wawae, whakawehe, kōwai, whakapirara, tāwae, tāwaewae, totohi, tūtahi, tāuke, nahenahe, kōwaewae, kōwae, tokorau, māhiti, roherohe, tauwehe, tauārai, tohi, toritori, momotu, motuhake, wae, wehewehe, wehe, whakatāuke, whakawehewehe, tiriwā, īheuheu, tīwae, tūhāhā, heu, ihi
2. (verb) to be separated, moved to a distance - especially in the phrase motu ki te ara.
Kātahi ka kōkiri te matua a Ngāti Raukawa. Ka motu mai ki te ara, ka haere te kaiwhakatakoto i te mānuka, i muri e whana atu ana te kaiwero - ko Kemene Piharau o Wairarapa (TWMNT 12/12/1872:150). / Then Ngāti Raukawa's army thrust forward. When they had moved some distance the man laying down the challenge stick went forward and after that the challenger, Kemene Piharau of Wairarapa, sprang forward.
Nō ngā rā o Hepetema rāua ka motuhia e te Pīhopa o Ākarana ki te tūranga piriti. I motuhia rāua ki Taranaki. / In September they were appointed by the Bishop of Auckland to the position of priest. They were moved to Taranaki.
3. (verb) to be set free, escape.
Me te weka ka motu i te māhanga (NM 1928:144). / Like a weka escaping from a trap.
4. (stative) be cut, severed.
I runga i tō rāua nonoketanga ko te kaikōhuru ka motu tōna ringa i te heu, ka ngaua tōna ringa (TP 5/1904:3). / In their struggle the murderer cut his arm with the razor and bit his arm.
Ka kite iho au kua motu te kiko o te tupehau o taku waewae (HP 1991:21). / I saw that the flesh of the calf of my leg had been cut.
Synonyms: hāparapara
5. (noun) island, country, land, nation, clump of trees, ship - anything separated or isolated.
Ko ētahi wāhi atu o te motu nei ka nui te mate i te waipuke, i te tūpuhi (TWM 5/3/1868:3). / Some other parts of this island have major problems with floods and storms.
Synonyms: whenua, taiwhenua, tuawhenua, oneone, uta, pahī, kaipuke pūngao-karihi, wakatauā, wakatauā karihi, wakatauā whakatakere, tima, kaipuke, pora, puke, kīngitanga, iwi
6. (noun) cut, wound.
Ngā motu kikino, nunui, me ngā ringa, waewae raupā: He miro te rongoā. Me tapahi te rākau, ka rere mai te hāpiapia ka pani i te motu, i te ringa i te waewae raupā ranei, ka takai ki te harakeke (TTT 1/12/1929:1955). / Bad and big cuts and calloused hands and feet: Miro is the treatment. The tree should be cut, gum will flow and smear is on the cut, or the calloused hand or foot and wrap it with New Zealand flax.
ngongohau
1. (noun) bow (of a canoe, boat or ship).
Ka mārō te ngongohau o tana kaipuke ki ngā wahapū ātaahua i Waitematā, i Kororāreka, i Ahuriri, i Whanganui-a-Tara, i Akaroa (TTT 1/8/1930:2120). / The bow of his ship heads keeps steadily on its course to the beautiful harbours of Waitematā, Russell, Napier, Wellington and Akaroa.
pahī
1. (noun) large ocean-going canoe, ship.
Ka whakawhiti te tira i te ara moana mā runga pahī (PK 2008:558). / The travelling party crossed the ocean route on a large ocean-going canoe.
Synonyms: tima, motu, kaipuke, pora, puke, kaipuke pūngao-karihi, wakatauā, wakatauā karihi, wakatauā whakatakere
2. (noun) travelling party, expedition, section of a kinship group.
Tino kore nei e taea e te kupu te whakaea ngā manaaki i uhia mai ki runga i te pahī a te Taura Whiri (HM 4/1994:3). / Words can never repay the hospitality bestowed on the Māori Language Commission's party.
Synonyms: hapori
kautere
1. (verb) (-kia) to ship in bulk.
E pakū ana te rongo o Hokianga mō ngā kauri o tōna wao, ā, he nui noa atu kua kauterekia atu ki Ingarangi, ki ngā whenua o tāwāhi ake nei. Ko ngā rākau whakapakoko tino pai i tukua atu ki Ingarangi (MM.TKM 1/2/1855:5). / Hokianga is famous for the kauri trees of its forest, and many have been shipped to England and other countries abroad. The finest wooden spars were sent to England.
2. (verb) to travel in a body.
Nāwai rā nō te marama o Āperira 1864 kua kaokao anō te hunga nei, ka kautere atu mā te takutai ki Maketū (TTR 1994:152). / After a time in April 1864 this group reassembled and travelled in a body along the coast to Maketū.
3. (verb) to float about freely.
I te mea e popoki ana a Rangi-nui i runga i a Papa-tū-ā-nuku, koia i kore ai e pakari te tipu o ngā mea katoa, i kore ai e hua ngā mea katoa, e kautere noa iho ana hoki i te ao pōuri (WW 1913:19). / Because Rangi-nui covered Papa-tū-ā-nuku everything could not grow to maturity, nor could anything bear fruit, they just floated about in the dark world.
tāruru
1. (verb) to be close together.
I tētahi pō ka titiro ia ki te pō tū i waho i Te Omanga e tāruru ana, ki Te Ika-o-te-rangi me Ngā Pātari, ki te tae pūkohu tataiore e taipua ana i ngā maunga (JPS 1911:17). / One night he looked at the clouds beyond Te Omanga, resting close and compact, at the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds, at the flakes of mist running together and settling in masses on the mountains.
2. (noun) fleet (of canoes, ships, etc.), convoy.
I te taenga mai o ngā tāruru tino nui kē nei e mau mai ana i ngā taotū i Karipori, neke atu i te 166, i te 190 rānei, ā rātou mahi takai ia rā (TTR 2000:163). / The arrival of big convoys bringing the wounded from Gallipoli meant doing more than 166 or 190 dressings a day.
kaipuke pūngao-karihi
1. (noun) nuclear-powered ship.
Synonyms: tima, motu, kaipuke, pora, puke, pahī, wakatauā, wakatauā karihi, wakatauā whakatakere
kiore
1. (noun) rat, Rattus exulans - also used for the larger brown Norway rat or pouhawaiki (Rattus norvegicus), the black ship rat (Rattus rattus) and the house mouse (Mus musculus).
Pērā hoki me Māui-pōtiki i tango rā i te āhua o te kāhu, o te kāeaea, o te ruru, o te kea, o te pekapeka, o te kiore, o te kererū, o te noke hoki; kātahi anō ka mate i a Hine-nui-te-pō i roto i tōna whare i Pōtaka-rongorongo. (JPS 1922:48). / It was thus that Māui-pōtiki took on the form of the harrier hawk, the New Zealand falcon, the morepork, the kea, the bat, the rat, the pigeon, and the worm; until he was finally killed by Hine-nui-te-pō in her house at Pōtaka-rongorongo.
Synonyms: hāmua, muritai, hinamoki, inamoki, porerarua, maungarua, rīroi, kaingarua, pouhawaiki, pou o Hawaiki
2. (noun) crew (of a canoe or ship), seaman.
I taku haerenga mai ki konei (Ākarana) i noho au i ētahi rā ki tērā kāinga iti, ki Ōkaro, te kāinga i puta nui mai tōna rongo mō te atawhaitanga o ngā āpiha me ngā kauhoe o te kaipuke Wīwī, a 'Aramene', i tahuri rā ki te tahataha tuauru i ngā tau e rua ka pahure (MM.TKM 1/9/1855:20). / On my way here (Auckland) I spent several days at Ōkaro, the little settlement famous for its hospitable treatment of the officers and crew of the French ship 'Alcmene', which was wrecked on the west coast two years ago.
kūne
1. (loan) (noun) schooner - a fore-and-aft rigged ship with two or more masts, the foremost being smaller than the other masts.
Kīhai i roa ka ū ki Kārewa ngā kaipuke kūne, ā ka utaina ngā wāhine me ngā tamariki ki aua kaipuke ka tukua ki Tauranga (TW 7/12/1878:612). / It wasn’t long before some schooners arrived at Kārewa and the women and children were loaded on those ships and taken to Tauranga.
Synonyms: rewa rua
