2. (noun) dart - used for a traditional game and made of a fern stalk with the thicker end bound with a piece of green flax to form a knob. The dart was thrown to ricochet off a mound.
Ko te tangata nāna te niti i rere rawa atu ki tawhiti, i a ia te piro (W 1971:284). / The person whose dart flew the furthest won.
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