māpere
1. (loan) (verb) (-hia,-tia) to ballot, conscript.
Hei tā te kāwanatanga hoki he whakatuma, he kaihore kē te mahi a Waikato, ā, nā te mea i māperetia noatia ko ngā Māori anake o te rohe o Waikato–Maniapoto, i kaha kē atu ai te whakaaro o Tainui e tūkinotia ana rātou (TTR 1996:45). / But the government considered it was defiance, what Waikato was doing was disloyal and because only the Māori from the Waikato–Maniapoto district were conscripted, Tainui feelings of injustice were compounded.
2. (loan) (noun) marble.
He māpere te kōhatu, kei te mahia mai i Itari (TTT 1/11/1921:2). / The stone is marble and it is being made in Italy.
3. (loan) (noun) ballot, conscription.
Nō te māpere o te 25 o Hune 1918, ka whakamenetia anō a Tonga Mahuta. Riro ana nā te rārangi ingoa muna a te kaute nui a te kāwanatanga te ingoa o Tonga i whakatūturu (TTR 1996:81). / Tonga Mahuta was called up in the ballot of 25 June 1918. Tonga's name was obtained using the confidential roll of the government's census.
