ahuahu
1. (verb) (-a,-ngia,-ria,-tia) to heap up, earth up (crops, etc).
Whakatōkia te kūkama (hue roroa) me te merengi roka (te hue kakara), me ahuahu kei pirau i te wai (TK 1/8/1845:32). / Plant cucumber (long gourds) and rock melon (sweet smelling gourds), which should be earthed up lest they rot from moisture.
2. (noun) heap, mound, hillock.
Ko aua ahuahu kia rarangi tonu, ko te matara o tētahi ahuahu i tētahi, kia whā putu i tētahi papa, kia toru putu i tētahi papa (TW 5/2/1876:70). / These mounds are in lines, four feet apart one way, and three feet the other.
