2. (noun) tame animal or bird, pet.
Ehara i te mango nui, he mango iti rawa, he kuao. Heoi, kīhai i patua e taua tangata, engari ka mahara kia waiho hei mokamokai māna (JPS 1904:89). / It was not a large shark, indeed quite a small and young one. And so the man did not kill it, but decided to make a pet of it for himself.
3. (noun) preserved head, dried human head.
I te marama o Maehe 1865, i te hui nui a te Pai Mārire ka tukuna te mokamokai o Kāpene Thomas Lloyd ki a Hirini, me ngā haki e rua, me te Pākehā i mau hereheretia (TTR 1990:206). / In March 1865 at a large gathering of Pai Marire the preserved head of Captain Thomas Lloyd was presented to Hirini together with two flags and a Pākehā prisoner.
