taratarai
1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-tia) to fashion, shape, dress - especially of working timber with an adze.
Ko te wahine nāna i hari mai te toki pounamu, hei taratarai atu i te poupou, kia ngangao ai (M 2005:436). / It was a woman who brought the greenstone adze to fashion the wall-pillars, to dress them with the markings of the toki.
Synonyms: āhuahanga, ahuahu, auaha, ata, pokepoke, tārai, tārei, hanga, āhua
