1. (noun) hail - sometimes as ua waitara.

1. (noun) project or scheme of a fanciful or difficult nature, difficult task, pipedream.

1. (personal noun) tribal group to the north-east of Mount Taranaki including the Waitara and New Plymouth areas. A section of Te Āti Awa moved to parts of the Wellington area and the northern South Island in the 1820s.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 89, 113;)

1. (personal noun) tribal group of the west coast of the North Island north of the Waitara river and the Chatham Islands.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 89, 113;)