mānunu
1. (modifier) full (of the tide) - strictly speaking used only of the tide before it begins to ebb.
I te marama o Pēpuere 1885, ka whakapuaki ia i ana māharahara ki te minita mō ngā take Māori, ki a Paranihi, he āwangawanga nōna mō ngā tikanga hī ika a te Māori: ka kī atu ia, "He māra nōku o raro atu o te tai mānunu. Mai rā anō tōku mana ki reira. Ko tāu ko tā te Pākehā e kī ana nā te Kuīni kē; he takahi tēnā i ngā ritenga Māori o neherā." (TTR 1990:75). / In February 1885, at a meeting with John Ballance, minister of native affairs, he expressed his concern about Māori fishing rights when he said, "I look upon the land below high-water mark as being part of my own garden…. My mana over these places has never been taken away…. But now, in consequence of the word of the Europeans that all the land below high-water mark belongs to the Queen, people have trampled upon our ancient Māori customs."
