2. (loan) (modifier) wooden.
...ā, 11 pereti wāpu i ngā awa i pakaru katoa i te waipuke (TW 7/12/1878:614). / ...and eleven wooden river bridges were completely destroyed by the flood.
3. (loan) (noun) wharf, jetty, port, dock.
He wāpu pai te wāpu e tū ai te kaipuke uta tōtara, kei Pēwhairangi (TW 20/7/1878:366). / The wharf at the Bay of Islands where the ships load tōtara logs is a good wharf.
Synonyms: tumu herenga waka
kuku
1. (noun) green-lipped mussel, common mussel, Perna canaliculus - a bivalve mollusc found attached to rocks and wharf piles from low tide level to depths of about 55 m.
Ka kitea i konei te kai nei: te parāoa, te tī, te huka, te poaka, te heihei, te take, me te manu ngāherehere - te kūkū, te kākā, te kōkō; me ngā mea o te wai tai - te ika, te kuku, te pipi; ngā mea o te wai māori - te tuna, te inanga, te kōura me te tini noa iho o ngā kai (TWMNT 19/6/1872:85). / Here these foods were seen: bread, tea, sugar, pork, chicken, turkey, and the birds of the forest - pigeon, kākā, tūī; and the foods of the salt water - fish, mussels, pipi; the things of the fresh water - eels, whitebait, crayfish and many other foods.
Synonyms: pōrohe
poro
1. (verb) (-a) to cut short, trim off, abbreviate, shorten.
Ki te titiro te tangata ki tētahi o aua kuīni i te wā kua mahue tōna kōpare, ka poroa tōna kakī (TWMNT 19/5/1874:123). / If a person saw one of those queens at a time when she was without her veil, he would be beheaded.
See also tīporo
2. (verb) (-a) to amputate, cut off.
I te roa e tioa ana e te mātaratara, ka poroa ngā matimati o tana waewae mauī (PK 2008:931). / Because he was so long exposed to the intense cold, the toes of his left foot were amputated.
3. (verb) to be finished.
4. (noun) block, log, butt-end, termination, piece of anything cut or broken off short.
E rere ana te poti i tētahi awa hōhonu, awa whānui, kātahi ka tūtuki te poti ki te poro rākau, ka tahuri (TTT 1/3/1924:14). / The boat was sailing along a deep, wide river when it struck a log and capsized.
Synonyms: rōku, poro rākau
5. (noun) prism.
He āhua ahu-3 te poro, he momo matarau. He ōrite te āhua o ngā pito e rua, he whakarara hoki. Katoa ērā atu o ngā mata, he tapawhā hāngai te āhua. Ka tapaina te poro ki te āhua o ōna pito (TRP 2010:205). / The prism is a 3-dimensional shape, a type of polyhedron. Two of the faces are identical and parallel - these are the two ends of the prism. All other faces are rectangular in shape. The prism is named after the shape of its ends (TRP 2010:205).
6. (noun) golden oyster, Anomia trigonopsis - a bivalve mollusc found on the underside of stones, other shells and wharf piles from low tide level to depths of 45 m. It has a thin wrinkled upper valve.
pōrohe
1. (noun) smelt, common smelt, Retropinna retropinna, Stokell's smelt, Stokellia anisodon - slender small silvery endemic freshwater fish that move about in shoals and growing to about 165 mm long. Common smelt is found throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand, but Stokell's smelt is only found in the lower reaches of rivers in the Marlborough-Canterbury coast. Spawn in the reaches of rivers in summer and autum then dying. Lavae washed to sea, some returning with whitebait, others returning only as adults.
2. (noun) blue mussel, Mytilus edulis - a bivalve mollusc found attached to rocks between tides. It has a dark bluish-black shell on the outside.
See also toretore
4. (noun) young of eels and other fish.
