2. (noun) non-keeping kūmara, kūmara that will not keep - the first to be eaten.
Ko ngā kūmara hai heri ki te rua ki tētahi o ngā awa, ko ngā kōrae, arā, ngā mea hai kai wawe, ki tētahi o ngā awa (JPS 1927:375). / The kūmara to take to the storage pit to one of the furrows, the non-keeping ones, that is the ones to be eaten early, to another of the furrows.
