pōutoa te kakī
1. to cut off the head, decapitate, behead.
Te taenga mai o Pātara me tōna ope ki Ōpōtiki, i kī ia, me i rokohanga e ia a Te Wākana ki reira, kua patua, kua poutoa te kakī, kia mauria ai te upoko ki Taranaki, ki a Te Ua (TP 6/1911:3). / When Pātara and his party reached Ōpōtiki he said that if he came across Völkner he would kill him, behead him and take the head to Taranaki, to Te Ua.
