whakahorohoro
1. (verb) (-a,-ngia) to pay out (a line), slacken off (a line).
I tētahi rangi ka whakahorohoro a Ruatapu i tana manu taratahi, te tapakotanga, tau ana ki runga ki te whare o tōna matua, o Uenuku (TWMNT 22/5/1877:133). / One day Ruatapu was paying out his triangular shaped kite, when it shot downwards and landed on the roof of the house of his father, Uenuku.
