2. (verb) to be hanging, suspended.
Ka oti te rā a Kupe rātou ko ngā mātua me ngā tāina. Kite rawa ake kua whata ki runga i te pari whata ai (WW 1915:44). / Kupe, his parents and younger brothers completed the sail. Finally it was seen hanging on the cliff.
3. (noun) elevated stage (for storing food, etc.), storage place.
Ka tahuri ia ki te whawhati kānga, ka tari ki rō whata, i ngā tōnapi ki rō whare (TWK 6:31). / He set about picking the corn and taking it into the storage place, and the turnips into the house.
2. (noun) clothes-rack.
2. (adjective) be clever.
3. (noun) the hau of the human footprint - in walking, a person leaves a certain amount of this hau in every footprint he makes. Anyone having evil designs on him will gather up the earth on which the footprint is impressed, and bearing it to the sacred whata puaroa, he will use it as a medium through which to injure that person by mākutu.
Ko te ariā o te wairua, ko ngā makawe, ko tōna mauri hoki tērā. Kātahi ka naomia ko te manea. Ko tōna ariātanga ko te iwi tonu (JPS 1899:49). / The hair was the semblance of the 'wairua', that being his mauri. He then took the 'manea', in the form of the bone itself.