timu

1. (verb) to be ebbing, ebb.

Kua timu te tai, kua kitea ngā kōpua, ngā pokere (TTT 1/9/1928:843). / The tide has ebbed and the deep pools, the holes, are revealed.

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timu

1. (noun) end, tail, tailbone, coccyx.

Ko te timu o te tangata ngā tangai whakamutunga o te tuaiwi. / In humans the coccyx is the last vertebrae of the spine.

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tai timu

1. (noun) ebb tide, low tide, low water.

I te mea e aru ana rāua i te tai timu, mahue ana ō rāua whakaaro mō ngā hōiho rā (TWK 11:19). / Because the two of them were chasing the low tide, they forgot about those horses.

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kauae timu

1. (noun) tetanus - bacterial disease affecting the nervous system and marked by rigidity and spasms of the voluntary muscles.

Ko te kauae timu te pūtake o te whakamakiki me te hukihuki o ngā uaua, tērā ka kaha whakararu i te hēhē me te horomi (HE 2017). / Tetanus causes muscles to stiffen and spasm, and makes it extremely hard to breathe or swallow (HE 2017).

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Tai-te-timu

1. (location) Caswell Sound (Fiordland).

kōnukunuku

1. (transitive verb) Bend. Applied to the process of drawing strips of flax over the edge of a shell, without disengaging the fibre, in making hukahuka for a timu cloak.

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