2. (noun) depressions, hollows, gullies.
Kei te tirotiro haere ngā kairūri rerewē i ngā pāpāringa o ngā maunga, i ngā tihi hoki, i ngā taporetanga, i ngā paritū, i ngā tāheke, i ngā whārua, i ngā papatairite, i ngā tāwharuwharu, i ngā wāhi katoa, kia tika ai tērā karanga mō te rerewē ki Pōneke (KO 15/10/1883). / The railway surveyors are looking about at flanks of the mountains, and at the peaks, depressions, steep cliffs, waterfalls, valleys, plains, gullies, everywhere, so that that call for the railway to Wellington will be on course.