aurara
1. (verb) to turn, be diverted.
Ka mea a Manu-korihi me tū ngā matua e rua o roto o te waha o te pakanga ki te tuone, kia āhua mātaratara te tū a te tangata, kia urupuia ai te tū a te matua, kia whāngaia ngā whatu me ngā mahara o te ope taua, kāore e aurara te whatu ki wāhi kē ake, me ngā mahara, ara ake anō he matua ohotata kei wāhi kē ake e takoto ana (JPS 1022:19). / Manu-korihi proposed that two divisions should take up a position in the front of the battle and there gesticulate in defiance, the position of the individuals should be spaced a little apart, but the two divisions should be close together, so that both the eyes and thoughts of the enemy war party would be fixed on them and not diverted elsewhere, until the divisions lying in other places suddenly rise up.
2. (verb) (-tia) to encroach.
I te wā e whakaūngia ana ngā roherohenga whenua, tēnā mōhio ana ia kua aurara te tangata ki ōna whenua, kāhore a ia i whakaroaroa ki te neke i ngā pou rūri (TTR 1996:22). / At the time when the land boundaries were being established she knew when others were encroaching on her land and did not delay in moving the survey pegs.
3. (verb) to clutch, grasp, grab, seize.
Mehemea he aurara noa mai a Kino ki te tangata, ka kīia, nō hea e taea te pana atu (KO 16/2/1885:1). / If evil seizes someone, it's said that there's no way to get rid of it.
Synonyms: hopu, rawhirawhi, rawhi, romi, kōhaki, herepū, hopuhopu, kōwhakiwhaki, rarahu, rarawhi
4. (noun) encroachment.
Ahakoa te aurara o te Pākehā me te Māori o Te Whanganui-a-Tara ki runga i ngā whenua o tētahi atu, i mahi tahi tonu rātou i ētahi wā (Te Ara 2015). / Despite the encroachment of Māori and Pākehā of Wellington on each other's land, they did cooperate sometimes.
5. (noun) rolling from side to side, tossing to and fro.
I whakamaua te taura ki tētahi toka nui i te ākau, engari nā te tino kaha o te āwhā, me te aurara o te kaipuke, kāhore te taura i kikī (TTR 1990:48). / A hawser was fastened to a boulder on shore, but because the storm had become so fierce, along with rolling of the ship, the line would not remain taut.
