kapo
1. (verb) (-hia,-ngia,-a) to catch at, snatch.
Ki te whakaaro i āhua porairewa rawa ngā whakaaro o taua kaumātua, inā hoki, i kapohia ai tō rāua tira ko tana mokopuna e te aituā (HKW 1/1/1901:10). / We think that the thoughts of that elder may have become a little confused because their party, he and his grandchild, were overtaken by disaster.
2. (verb) (-hia) to flash.
3. (noun) lightning.
Nō te whatitiri, nō te kapo, nō te ua, he mea riringi iho nō runga, nō te rangi (JPS 1912:33). / It was of the thunder, of the lightning and of the rain, which was poured down from above, from the heavens.
