kurukuru
1. (verb) (-a,-ngia,-tia) to pound, pummel, strike, pulverise, pelt, throw.
Ko te mahi nei, he utauta kōhatu ki runga i tētahi kāta nui, ka mau ki tētahi wāhi kē, ka kurukuru kia pākarukaru, kātahi ka harihari ki te whakakī haere i ngā wāhi poharu o te iāri kau whakatētē (HP 1991:26). / This task was to load stones onto a big cart, take them to another place, break them up, then take them to fill the boggy parts of the milking cow yard.
Synonyms: kōmeke, karaepa, epa, whākuru, opa, kuru, pao, āki, kōmekemeke, pātuki, pāuna, hamahama, pehu, patupatu, tātā, poutuki, tuki
