2. (modifier) rocky.
Ko ia tētehi o te paratunu o te hokowhitu Māori, he mea whakahau nei i Āperira o te tau 1943 kia pāhoro, mau rawa i a rātau te tohu whenua nei a Takrouna, inarā, he tāmore tokatoka, tūparipari nei, tata atu ki te kotahi mano putu te teitei ake i ētehi putunga uru ōriwa i raro ake (TTR 2000:112). / He was one of the platoon from the Māori Battalion that was ordered, in April 1943, to capture and secure the Takrouna feature, because it was a steep, rocky outcrop almost a thousand feet above some olive groves.