1. (noun) steersman, helmsman, navigator.
Ka tae mai tōna waka ki waenganui pū o te moana, ka haere ake tōna atua i raro ka mau ki te toi o te hoe a te kaiwhakatere o tōna waka, arā ko Tūtangatakino (TWMNT 23/3/1875:65). / When he had got out into mid-ocean, his god rose from the depths and seized the point of the paddle of Tūtangatakino, the steersman of his canoe.
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