2. (noun) floor mat.
Ka māngere ana te wahine ki te raranga whāriki, takapau, kōaka, ka kīia, 'He uri nō Hinerangi pakihore.' (TP 11/1908:6) / When a woman is too lazy to weave mats, fine floor mats and coarse mats it is said, 'A descendant of lazy Hinerangi.'
3. (noun) mattress.
Synonyms: whāriki moenga
hurihanga takapau
1. (noun) ritual performed when warriors return from battle and require the tapu on them to be removed - included the kindling of two fires. One fire, the ahi horokaka was where the priest ate a kūmara and at the ahi ruahine a woman also ate a single kūmara. It was the woman who removed the tapu. This ceremony was accompanied by karakia. The warriors involved did not eat the kūmara.
takapau wharanui
1. (noun) wide sleeping mat, chiefly marriage bed, birth in lawful wedlock - a metaphor for a birth having taken place as a result of a communally recognised marriage.
Mā Kahutia-te-rangi, mā te tangata i moea ki runga i te takapau wharanui (W 1971:204). / It is for Kahutia-te-rangi, the man who was born in lawful wedlock.
tangata takapau pōkai
1. (noun) nomad, itinerant, traveller, drifter, wanderer.
Kāore pea e nui ngā rawa a te tangata takapau pōkai - ko tana takapau, ko ōna pūweru, he kai iti nei, koinā katoa (HJ 2015:19). / A nomad doesn't have a lot of possessions - his bedding, clothes and a little food, that's all.
Synonyms: kaipaoe, tipiwhenua, kaipāwe
