2. (noun) can, tin.
Tū ai te whare patu mīti o Gear ki Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Ki reira whakatiohia ai te mīti, ka purua rānei ki roto puoto hei hoko ki tāwāhi (Te Ara 2015). / The Gear meat works are in Wellington. There meat was frozen, and also canned, for export.
3. (noun) cylinder.
Me pakari tonu te waka ka tika ai mō ngā rori o tuawhenua, ka riro mai nei i a ia tana motokā tuatahi, he Chevrolet pereki whero nei te kara, e ono kē ngā puoto (TTR 2000:164). / A sturdy vehicle was needed for the back-country roads and her first car was a six-cylinder, brick-red Chevrolet.
Kia tata pau te kapuni, haria te puoto kia whakakīia (HJ 2015:234). / When the gas is almost used up, take the cylinder to be filled.
tāpokopoko
1. (verb) to sink (into mud, etc.), get bogged down.
Te taenga atu ki te wāhi repo, tapoko tonu iho, he roa hoki nō te ua i tāpokopoko ai (TH 1/2/1860:3). / When they reached the swampy area, they sank down and became bogged because it had been raining for so long.
Synonyms: tapoko
2. (modifier) soft, boggy.
He huarahi tāpokopoko te huarahi o te aroha pono (TTT 1/10/1924:117). / The course of true love is a boggy road.
3. (noun) bogginess, bog.
Ko te kino o tā rātou haere ko te nui o te hau, o te rere hoki o te huka, me te tāpokopoko hoki (TP 4/1909:9). / Their travel was terrible because of the amount of wind and snow and the bogginess.
2. (noun) sinking.
Heoi nā te totohu noa o te mōkihi, kīhai i whakaterengia mō ngā haere ki tawhiti (Te Ara 2013). / But because rafts were prone to sinking, they were not suitable for long distances.
Synonyms: whakarukuruku
2. (noun) sinking, descent.
Hei ngā pō Tangaroa ka tīmata te whakarukuruku o Matariki (TTT 1/5/1922:14). / On the nights of Tangaroa the sinking of the Pleiades begins.
Synonyms: totohu
2. (modifier) sunken, submerged, immersed.
I āraia te wahapū o taua awa ki te kaipuke whakatotohu (MM.TKM 30/6/1856:5). / The mouth of that river was blocked with sunken ships.
3. (noun) immersion, submersion.
E ai ki te kōrero he whakatotohu nōna i ōna tūroro ki te wai mātao ka tae ake ngā pirihimana (TTR 1994:6). / His immersion of his patients with cold water is said to have led to the police arriving.
2. (modifier) soft, boggy, sodden.
Nā te Māori ngā awakari kei ngā whenua powharu i hanga. / It was the Māori who built the trenches in the boggy land.
2. (verb) (-na,-tia) to sink (into mud, etc.).
Te taenga atu ki te wāhi repo, tapoko tonu iho, he roa hoki nō te ua i tāpokopoko ai (TH 1/2/1860:3). / When they reached the swampy area, they sank down and became bogged because it had been raining for so long.
Synonyms: tāpokopoko
2. (modifier) soft, boggy, sodden, swampy, marshy.
He awa pōwharuwharu kei waenganui o taua kāinga Māori i kōrero rā au, e toru, e whā rānei iāri te whānui o taua awa; kei te takiwā ua he kino rawa te whakawhitianga, he whakamomori tonu, kei te paki he kino anō, he rākau te ara (TWMNT 23/3/1875:64). / There is a swampy creek in the middle of that Māori settlement and I would say it is three or four yards wide, almost impassable in wet weather, and in dry weather it is also bad, the way across being over a log.
Synonyms: reporepo, oru, ngaeki, kōreporepo
2. (modifier) hesitating in speech.
whakawhenua
1. (verb) to set (of heavenly bodies).
Me pēhea kē e wareware ai i a au taua pō ko te kitenga whakamutunga hoki tērā i a koe, ā, rongo rawa ake māua ko taringa kua whakawhenua kētia a `Meremere-Tāwera, te whetū takiaho mai o te rangi,' ā, tau mai ana ko te pōuri nui (HM 1/1994:1). / How could I forget that night, which was the last time I saw you, and when I heard, it was as if Venus, the shining star of the heavens, had already set, and a great sadness settled upon me.
Synonyms: rumaki
3. (verb) to hold fast, define land.
I whakawhenua tūturutia anō hoki e ērā o ngā rangatira o te raki o Waiapu, ō rātau whenua (TTR 1990:41). / The other chiefs of northern Waiapu also defined their permanent land.
4. (verb) to sink to the bottom.
Kāore i te mōhiotia ko hea te ara tika e ū pai ai tō tātou waka reo ki te whenua houkura, tē whakawhenua noa ki te kōpū o Hinemoana (HM 3/1993:2). / It's not clear where the right path is whereby our language canoe will reach the prosperous land and not just sink down to the bowels of Hinemoana.
2. (modifier) soft, boggy, sodden.
Kotahi te tangata e ārahi ana i tōna kāta i te huarahi, ka tae ki te wāhi poharu ka mau tētahi o ngā wīra i rō repo (TWM 30/8/1870:2). / One man was leading his cart along the road when he came to a boggy part and one of the wheels got stuck in the bog.
See also powharu
3. (noun) bog, mud, quagmire.
tahuri
1. (verb) (-tia) to turn, accept.
Kātahi ka hoatu ngā moni ki ngā Māori, ki te kore e tahuritia aua moni e rātou kātahi ka mahia i raro i ngā tikanga o te Ture mō ngā Rerewē (TW 24/11/1874:44). / Then the money was offered to the Māori, and if that price was not accepted by them, then the matter was dealt with under the procedures of the Railways Act.
Synonyms: whakaae
2. (verb) to be sunk, capsized, overturned.
I te moana te waka nei ka aituā ka tahuri ki waho o Te Kohekohe, he wāhi e tata ana ki Uawa. Ka tahuri rā te waka, ka pupuri ētahi ki te waka, ka kau ia a Te Manuhou me tētahi atu ki uta (TP 8/1905:5). / While at sea off Te Kohekohe, a place near Tolaga Bay, this vessel had a mishap and capsized. When the vessel capsized some clung to the vessel, but Te Manuhou and another swam ashore.
Synonyms: whakataupoki, takahuri, porohuri, urupoki, huripokinga, tūpoki, whakatakahuri, totohu, torongi, whakarukuruku, paremo, taupunga, puoto, kāraha
3. (verb) to be turned, set about, turn over, turn to, set to work.
Ka tahuri ia ki te whawhati kānga, ka tari ki rō whata, i ngā tōnapi ki rō whare (TWK 6:31). / He set about picking the corn and taking it into the storage place, and the turnips into the house.
4. (verb) to be swamped, flooded, inundated.
He pā tēnei kāore i tahuri i ngā waipuke o mua, hei tēnei waipuke ka tahuri (TP 8/1906:11). / This fort had not been swamped by floods before, but in this flood it was swamped.
5. (verb) to be overthrown (of a pā).
Ka tika kē mai taua taua ki Hātaitai, ki Uruhau, ki Te Aka-tarewa, ki Te Wai-hirere, kia tahuri ēnei pā (JPS 1919:90). / The war party headed straight for Hātaitai, Uruhau, Te Aka-tarewa and Te Wai-hirere to overthrow these pā.
karaka maoa
1. (noun) person who can't swim - figurative term likening a non-swimmer to a mature karaka berry that sinks in water.
He karanga mate te hari i te karaka maoa ki te hī i runga waka, kāore nei ōna hākete whakaora (HJ 2012:20). / Taking a non-swimmer fishing on a vessel without her life-jacket is asking for trouble.
