tākai
1. (verb) (-a,-ngia) to wrap up, wrap round, wind round.
Ka tākaingia ngā koha mā ngā tamariki ki te pepa muramura (HJ 2012:285). / The gifts for the children were wrapped up with bright paper.
See also takai
2. (noun) covering, bandage, wrapper, packaging.
See also takai
Synonyms: mara kaka mā, karukaru, takai, tākaikai
3. (noun) small ostrich foot, Struthiolaria vermis - a spindle-shaped univalve that lives just beneath the surface of tidal flats and off sandy beaches along open coasts to depths of 90 m. The shell is yellow-brown.
See also takai
takai
1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to wrap up, wrap round, wind round.
I whānau anō au i te taha o te ākau, ā, i whiua atu au e koe ki te hukahuka o te tai, ā, he mea takai ahau e koe ki roto ki tōu tikitiki (NM 1928:6). / I was indeed born beside the coast and you threw me into the foam of the sea and you wrapped me in your topknot.
2. (noun) covering, bandage, wrapper, packaging, parcel.
Ka kitea e tētahi kōtiro tētahi takai e takoto ana i runga i te huarahi haerenga waka (TPH 12/8/1905:4) / A girl found a parcel lying on the road.
Synonyms: mara kaka mā, karukaru, tākaikai, tākai, mōkī, pāhara, pūhera, pōrukuruku
3. (noun) small ostrich foot, Struthiolaria vermis - a spindle-shaped univalve that lives just beneath the surface of tidal flats and off sandy beaches along open coasts to depths of 90 m. The shell is yellow-brown.
rūri takai
1. (loan) (noun) tape measure.
Nā tētahi tangata Māori, i te koraha i pahaki atu o te Te Tō, tētahi rūri takai, kua riro mai ki te whare tā o 'Te Karere Maori' i taua tangata, ā, ka riro atu ki te tangata nāna taua mea, ua utua te kaikawe mai (TKM 12/4/1849:1). / Found by a Māori man in the vacant area beyond Freeman’s Bay, a tape measure, which he has given to the printing house of 'Te Karere Maori', where the owner may have it by paying expenses to the person who brought it in.
kura takai puni
1. (noun) war party, militia, form of attack in warfare where the fighting men attack in a compact force.
He kura takai puni: He ope taua i kopakina kia kotahi tana kōkiri, kia kore ai e pakaru; ko ētahi ingoa he kawau rukuroa, he kawau mārō (M 2006:52). / A 'kura takai puni': A war party dedicated to make one charge and not to become separated; other names are 'kawau rukuroa' and 'kawau mārō'.
See also kura takahi puni
Synonyms: kura takahi puni, marīhia, waranatia
tākai-ukutea
1. (noun) plaster cast, orthopedic cast.
Nō te whatinga o tana ringa, ka tākaia tana kikowhiti ki te tākai-ukutea (HJ 2012:266). / When she broke her arm her forearm was wrapped around with a plaster cast.
Synonyms: pāpāuku
kawau mārō
1. (noun) fighting formation, concentrated attack - a military tactic where the war party advances in a triangle formation in battle to come to close grips and to split the enemy ranks. Also known as koau mārō, kawau rukuroa and kura takai puni.
Ko tērā kupu ko te 'kawau mārō' nō te pakanga, arā mō te matua he mea whakakokoi te tū whakamua, ā, ka whakaeke ana kāore rawa e hoki mai, kāore hoki e marara (NIT 1995:187). / That saying, the 'kawau mārō' (straight-flying cormorant) is about warfare and concerns an army division that forms a point at the front and when attacking never retreats or scatters.
2. (noun) advocate, champion, promoter.
He kawau mārō a Hōne Te Atirau Asher nō Tūwharetoa, noho ai hei kaiārahi i waenganui i te Māori rāua ko te Pākehā (TTR 1998:4). / Hōne Te Atirau was an advocate of Tūwharetoa and played a leadership role between Māori and Pākehā.
Synonyms: tautīnei, kaiwhakahau, kaihāpai, kaitaunaki, whakaihuwaka, aumangea
koau mārō
1. (noun) fighting formation, concentrated attack - a military tactic where the war party advances in a triangle formation in battle to come to close grips and to split the enemy ranks. Also known as kawau mārō, kawau rukuroa and kura takai puni.
Kātahi ka rere ngā matua, ka haere rā i runga i te koau mārō (W 1971:110). / Then the army divisions advanced in the 'koau mārō' formation.
See also kawau mārō
