2. (modifier) steep, perpendicular, upright.
Ko te wāhi tukunga atu ki te awa he tahataha āhua poupou tonu (HP 1991:20). / The place for entering the river was quite a steep bank.
3. (noun) wall-pillars, post, pole, upright slabs forming the framework of the walls of a house, carved wall figures, peg, stake.
Ka titiro a Wairangi, ko ngā poupou o te whare he kōhurihuri kahikatea (JPS 1910:198). / Wairangi looked and noticed that the side posts of the house were of sapling white pine.
Synonyms: pouihi, pōhi, tīrau, titi, mātiti, tahatiti, koropā, tia, toko, tiripou, turupou, tumutumu, tumu, pōra, pou, tīrou, tōpito o te ao, pōhi, turuturu, koteo, tokotoko
4. (noun) old folk.
Synonyms: mātāpuputu
5. (noun) father-in-law, mother-in-law.
Kātahi ka kī atu te wahine rā ki tana tāne, “Kua kite au i tōu poupou." (JPS 1893:214). / Then that woman said to her husband, “I have seen your father-in-law."
paetara
1. (noun) wall plate, wall (of a house).
Hei tōna hokinga ki tana wharepuni i ngā ahiahi, ka moemoeā e kauruki mai ana ōna uri i ngā paetara o te whare, ka oti anō he waiata (TTR 1990:55). / When she would return home in the evenings, she dreamed of her descendants she could see faintly on the walls of the house, and she completed another song.
pakitara
1. (noun) wall, side wall (of a house).
Ko mua o te pātaka he mānuka, ko ngā pakitara he tōtara, ko te tuanui he kauri (TP 1/5/1902:7). / The front of the storehouse was of mānuka, the walls were of tōtara, and the roof was of kauri.
See also wāra
pou āniwaniwa
1. (noun) back wall post of a meeting house - supported the ridge pole in the back wall of a meeting house.
Synonyms: pou te āniwaniwa, pou tuarongo
pou te āniwaniwa
1. (noun) back wall post of a meeting house - supported the ridge pole in the back wall of a meeting house.
Synonyms: pou āniwaniwa, pou tuarongo
pou tuarongo
1. (noun) back wall post of a meeting house - supported the ridge pole in the back wall of a meeting house. Sometimes as one word, i.e. poutuarongo.
E toru ngā pou tūhono i te tāhuhu ki te papa, arā, ko te pou tāhū, ko te pou tokomanawa, ko te pou tuarongo (Te Ara 2012). / Three posts support the tāhuhu (ridgepole), namely the pou tāhū (front post), the pou tokomanawa (centre post) and the pou tuarongo (back wall post).
See also pou āniwaniwa
Synonyms: pou āniwaniwa, pou te āniwaniwa
parepare
1. (verb) (-a) to turn aside, ward off, divert, go to one side, avoid.
Na, ka pangā nei e tātou ngā paraire ki ngā māngai o ngā hōiho, kia rongo ai rātou ki a tātou; ā pareparea ana e tātou tō rātou tinana katoa (PT Hemi 3:3). / Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
2. (noun) enticing movement of a woman’s hips (in haka).
Ko tētahi wāhanga o tā te wahine whakatautau, ko te parepare i tōna hope hei whakapoapoa i te hunga mātakitaki (RMR 2017). / A part of a woman's movement in an enticing way is the movement of her hips to charm the audience.
3. (noun) fortification wall, breastwork, parapet - protective wall of earth.
E toru ngā parepare o taua pā, i roto tētahi, i waho mai e rua, puta noa ki tētahi taha ki tētahi taha e taiāwhio ana i te pā te teitei o ētahi o aua parepare tekau mā rua putu (TWM 11/2/1862:1). / There were three fortification walls of that pā, one inside and two outside, going right around the sides of the pā with the height of some of those fortification walls being twelve feet.
4. (noun) defender, protector.
I muri rawa mai, ka noho ko ia te parepare mō tōna whaene i tōna hokonga i a Kaitarakihi me tā rātou pāmu (TTR 2000:31). / Much later he was the defender for his mother and her wish to sell Kaitarakihi and their farm.
Synonyms: ruruhau, whakaruru, kaiwhakamarumaru, whakamarumaru, whakaruruhau
apai
1. (noun) front wall inside a wharenui.
Ka karanga a Rongokārae, " Wāhia te apai o te whare." Kātahi te whitu tekau tangata rā ka turaki i te apai o te whare, o te puta auahi, hinga katoa (TP 5/1913:10). / Rongokārae called, "Smash down the front wall of the house." Then the seventy men demolished the front wall of the house and the window opening, it all fell.
kaho
1. (noun) crossbar, crossbeam, roof batten, fence rail, horizontal wall batten in a meeting house.
Kaho tuanui: Ko te kaho tapu o te whare (M 2006:242). / Roof batten: The sacred batten of the house.
Synonyms: kahokaho
2. (noun) horizontal batten of a tukutuku panel.
Ko te rākau tūmatakahuki whakamatua i ngā kaho tukutuku (M 2005:300). / The main upright rod on the front of tukutuku slats.
3. (noun) rauhuia, Linum monogynum - an endemic coastal shrub which grows into a soft bush up to 50 cm, with attractive small grey leaves and flaring white flowers produced in spring and summer.
See also rauhuia
Synonyms: rauhuia, nao, matamatahuia
maioro
1. (noun) earthworks, wall for fortification, fortifications, embankment.
Nō te āraitanga i te pā o Te Koutu, ka tahuri te Hauhau ki te hanga maioro mō te pā o Puraku e tata ana ki Te Tarukenga (TTR 1990:158). / When they were blocked at Te Koutu pā, the Hauhau built fortifications for Puraku pā near Tarukenga.
pātū
pou tāhū
1. (noun) post supporting the ridge pole in the front wall inside a meeting house - sometimes written as one word, i.e. poutāhū.
E toru ngā pou tūhono i te tāhuhu ki te papa, arā, ko te pou tāhū, ko te pou tokomanawa, ko te pou tuarongo (Te Ara 2012). / Three posts support the tāhuhu (ridgepole), namely the pou tāhū (front post), the pou tokomanawa (centre post) and the pou tuarongo (back wall post).
See also pou te wharau
