popoti
1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to surround, beset.
Kāti i tino kaha rawa te hāpainga i taua tohunga, he kī tonu ngā tereina i te tangata, kātahi anō te tohunga i tino popotia e te tāngata (TP 11/1904:7). / Well that tohunga was promoted energetically and the trains were full of people and the tohunga was surrounded by people.