takere

1. (verb) to be partly filled.

Tae rawa mai ki a au, kua āhua takere kē te wai o roto o te tāpu (HP 1991:52). / When my turn eventually arrived the water in the bath was only partly full.

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Synonyms: papanga

2. (noun) bottom.

Kia roa e takoto ana te wai paruparu, kua kōratarata, kua noho mai ngā waipara ki te takere (PK 2008:1051). / When dirty water has been lying for a long time it clears and the sediment settles at the bottom.

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3. (noun) seabed, riverbed, lake bed, channel (especially of the sea, rivers and lakes).

Kei ngā takere me ngā tahatika o ngā awa ngā toka pounamu (Te Ara 2013). / The greenstone boulders are in the bottom and the banks of the rivers.

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Synonyms: papamoana, kaupapa o te moana, parumoana, kūkūpango, whaiawa, whakatakere

4. (noun) hull (of a canoe).

He mea tono e ia kia haria mai i Tūākau te takere o te waka taua tawhito nei, o Te Winika, ki Tūrangawaewae (TTR 1998:143). / She had the hull of an old war canoe, Te Winika, brought from Tuakau to Tūrangawaewae.

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Takere haea

1. A split canoe hull: a great calamity.

Kātahi ko te hore o te ao kua takere haea koia / what a terrible thing a great calamity indeed.

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Takere o te waka

1. The hull of the canoe: the greatest progeny of a hapū or iwi.

E te takere o te waka tēnā rā koutou / to the great tribe I great you.

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E kore e ngaro he takere waka nui

1. An iwi (or organisation) will make it through great trials and tribulations.

The hull of a great waka will not be lost. /

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kaiāmiki

1. (noun) scribe.

2. (noun) (meeting) minute-taker.

3. (noun) (score-keeper) scorer.

waewae kai kapua

1. (noun) adventurous person, risk-taker, one with fanciful ideas, dreamer.

Kāore e tae te waewae pakiaka ki te waewae kai kapua (NP 2001:174). / Never will the foot stumbling on roots overtake the adventurous person. - a whakataukī used to refer to how an adventurous person or a risk-taker will succeed over the clumsy plodder.

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Synonyms: manawa kai tūtae

manawa kai tūtae

1. (modifier) daring, undaunted, adventurous, audacious, bold, fearless, game, intrepid, plucky.

I te mutunga o āna mahi manawa kai tūtae e tere ana i ngā moana o te ao, ka noho ia ki uta i te tau 1830, ki te teihana hopu pakake a Jacky Guard i Te Awaiti (TTR 1994:23). / After his adventurous occupation sailing the oceans of the world, in 1830 he lived ashore at Jacky Guard's Te Awaiti shore whaling station.

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Synonyms: mātātoa, aumangea