tipi
1. (verb) (-a) to slice, mow down, exterminate, glide, go quickly, skim lightly along the surface, cut down (weeds, etc.).
Nō tōna kitenga mai ka ngaro koe kei roto i te tātarāmoa i te paewhenua, ka puta tōna aroha, kātahi anō ka tipia te tātarāmoa me te paewhenua (KO 15/12/1884:7). / When he observed that you were lost in the brambles and the dock, he felt compassion and then cut down the brambles and dock.
Synonyms: tipi hauraro, tītipi
tipi hauraro
1. (verb) to exterminate, annihilate, decimate, eradicate, wipe out, mow down - sometimes as one word, i.e. tipihauraro (-tia).
Nā! tā te toa hanga, ka tipia haurarotia te hunga e kōkiri mai rā; tokowhitu nā te ringa ake o Ngārimu (Ngārimu VC citation). / This they did with such good effect that the attackers were mown down; seven by Ngārimu's own hand.
tipi haere
1. (verb) to roam about, call in at places.
I hoki mai hoki ia ki Te Ika-a-Māui i muri i te Kirihimete, ka mahue atu au nei ki Ōtautahi tipi haere ai (HKW 1/3/1901:8). / He returned to the North Island after Christmas, leaving me in Christchurch to travel about.
Synonyms: tipitipi, tipitipi haere, paoke, whakatīhohe
