kotakota
1. (noun) shell (of pipi, etc.).
Ko ngā takiwā i waenganui o ngā wai, kōmā tonu, nō ngā rongoā i roto i aua wai. Ko te āhua o taua mea mā me te kotakota tio, toheroa noa e tahuna nei ki te ahi (MM.TKM 10/4/1851:3). / The area in the middle of the pool was whitish because of the healing elements in those pools. That white thing looked like an oyster, or a toheroa shell that is burnt in the fire.
Synonyms: kota, anga, angaanga, tīwarawara, kōwhaki
2. (noun) chips, shavings, scrapings.
Ka noho ia i te taha o tana ahi, kei te tunu i ngā aruhe mā tana tāne, e tunu ana ia, e neke ana i ōna kākahu ki runga, kia kitea mai ai e Manaia ngā kotakota waruhanga tao e mau ana i a ia (NM 1928:99). / She sat down beside her fire cooking the fern root for her husband, and while she was cooking she moved her garments up so that Manaia could see the shavings from scraping the spears attached to her.
3. (noun) lime.
Ka rite hoki ngā iwi ki ngā tahunga kotakota (PT Ihaia 33:12). / And the people shall be as the burnings of lime.
Tērā tētahi mihinare o mua i haere ki ngā moutere o ērā iwi kē atu o te moana ki te taha tonga o te ao nei, nāna i whakaako ngā tāngata o tētahi o aua moutere ki te tahu i ngā toka o tātahi i tō rātou moutere hei kotakota (TWMNT 30/5/1876:129). / There was a former missionary who went to the islands of the South Seas, and it was he who taught the people of one of those islands to burn the coral of the beach of their island to manufacture lime.
4. (noun) southern pigfish, Congiopodus leucopaecilus - a fish with a scaleless, strongly compressed body with a high spiny dorsal fin, elongated snout and small mouth with fleshy lips.
See also puramorua
