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āka

1. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to clean off, scrape away.

Ko te iwi o Kahuparoro ki te koko i te aruhe, ko te iwi o Rākaihikuroa ki te āka i te pei o te aruhe (W 1971:6). / Kahuparoro's people pulled up the fern root, Rākaihikuroa's people scraped away the soil of the fern root.

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