2. (noun) watchman's platform.
Ko te ahurewa o te pā, he pātaka, he mea hanga hei nohoanga mō te hunga whakaaraara i ngā tāngata o roto i te pā, kia mataara tonu i te pō (W 1971:4) / The watchman's platform was an elevated stage built as a place for the sentries of the people in the pā to sit to keep watch at night.
3. (noun) stage, platform - has connotations of tapu and mana.
Nā Hēnare Kaihau rāua ko Pēpene Eketone ngā whakaritenga o te tangihanga i whakahaere. Nā rāua anō te whakarite kia kotahi marama te tūpāpaku e takoto ana i runga i tōna ahurewa, kia taea ai ia e ngā iwi katoa o te Kīngitanga te whakanui – he whakaritenga nā te tini me te mano i hāpai (TTR 1996:89). / Hēnare Kaihau and Pēpene Eketone organised the arrangements for the tangihanga. They decided that his body should lie in state for a month to enable all the King movement tribes to honour him, a duty supported by thousands.
Synonyms: kaupapa, kāraho, whatārangi, kahupapa, atamira, raho, rahoraho, tūāpapa
4. (noun) throne.
Ka whakatūria e rātou ko ētehi o ngā rangatira o Waikato he hākari mā ngā Pākehā o Rangiaowhia, hei whakanui i te ekenga o te Kīngi ki tōna ahurewa (TTR 1994:151). / She and other Waikato leaders held a banquet for Pākehā of Rangiaowhia to commemorate the accession to the throne of the King.
