kaha
1. (noun) rope, noose, snare for catching birds when they come to drink.
Nā, me titiro anō te tangata kua nui te manu ki tōna pua, nā kua tetere te manu, kātahi anō ka haere ki te tāhere i tōna pua, he mea herehere ngā kaha ki te peka o te rākau, kapi tonu i te kaha te pua (Pēhi 1942:472). / Now, one should watch for when there are plenty of birds in his bird tree, and when the birds are fat, then he goes to set snares in his birding tree, the nooses are set in the branches of the tree and the birding tree is full of snares.
Synonyms: taura, rino, kārure, whakaheke, taukaea, rāhiri, pūrengi, tāwai, tāwhiti, koro, kono, kōpeti, koromāhanga, tari, karu māhanga, māhanga, naha, reti
2. (noun) rope on the edge of a net.
Nō te kitenga o ngā iwi rā i te mahi kino a aua tāngata, ka riri, kātahi anō ka whitia te kaha o te kupenga, tō raro ki tō runga, ka hinga rāua ki roto o te ika, ka ngaua ō rāua kiri e te taratara o te ika, ka kainga rāua e te mahaki; nō reira te pūtake mai o te whēwhē, o te hakihaki, o te pātito (JPS 1907:221). / When those people saw the objectionable deed of those men, they became incensed and they reversed the positions of the upper and lower ropes of the net so that the two of them fell over amongst the fish. Their skins were assailed by the spines of the fish, which brought on skin diseases. These are the cause of boils, rashes and scabs.
3. (noun) lashings of the rauawa of a canoe.
Kātahi rātou ka tahuri ki te tapatapahi i ngā kaha o ngā waka, ki te unuunu hoki i ngā puru (NM 1928:143). / Then they set about cutting the lashings of the canoes and removing the bungs.
4. (noun) boundary line (of land, etc.).
Tuhia ngā kaha o te māra (W 1971:82). / Point out the boundaries of the garden.
5. (noun) line of descent, lineage, line of ancestry, genealogy.
