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puoto

1. (noun) vessel, container, flask - anything to hold water or liquids.

He puoto wai (JPS 1929:218). / A water container.

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2. (noun) can, tin.

Tū ai te whare patu mīti o Gear ki Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Ki reira whakatiohia ai te mīti, ka purua rānei ki roto puoto hei hoko ki tāwāhi (Te Ara 2015). / The Gear meat works are in Wellington. There meat was frozen, and also canned, for export.

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3. (noun) cylinder.

Me pakari tonu te waka ka tika ai mō ngā rori o tuawhenua, ka riro mai nei i a ia tana motokā tuatahi, he Chevrolet pereki whero nei te kara, e ono kē ngā puoto (TTR 2000:164). / A sturdy vehicle was needed for the back-country roads and her first car was a six-cylinder, brick-red Chevrolet.
Kia tata pau te kapuni, haria te puoto kia whakakīia (HJ 2015:234). / When the gas is almost used up, take the cylinder to be filled.

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4. (noun) sink.

Haria atu ngā taputapu kai ki te puoto. / Take the dishes to the sink, please.

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Synonyms: totohu, torongi, whakarukuruku, paremo, tahuri, taupunga, kāraha

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