pākaka
1. (verb) to stretch meat by suspending (e.g. venison).
Ko ērā ki te mahi kai, arā, ki te kohi mātaitai, te pipi, tio, karehu rānei, te hao ārara, kanae, me ngā tāmure ka mau, ki te patu kau hei mīti kātahi ka irihia ki tētahi manga rākau kia pākaka ai mō te tao, me te hari atu he poro wahie mā te panuku hei tahu i ngā ahi me te whakawera hāngī (TWK 55:19). / There were others to prepare the food, that is to collect seafood, pipi, oysters or mudsnail, fishing with nets for trevally, mullet and snapper, slaughtering beef for meat and then hanging it up on a tree branch to stretch it for cooking, and taking logs of firewood by sledge for burning in the fires and the heating of the hāngī.
2. (verb) to surround, hem in - with a view to catching.
I pākakatia ngā tia i roto i te iāri. / The deer were hemmed in in the yard.
3. (noun) small enclosure, dock, pen.
Ka ārahina atu te herehere i te pākaka (Ng 1993:109). / The prisoner was led away from the dock.
