nuku
1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to move, shift, extend.
I muri tata tonu iho, i a Āperira, ka nuku a Te Kooti me ana tāngata mai i Te Kūiti ki Ōtewā (TTR 1990:222). / Immediately after, in April, Te Kooti and his people moved from Te Kūiti to Ōtewā.
Synonyms: kaneke, ngatete, kori, tākiri, koni, korikori, neke, paheke, panuku, whakakorikori, mū, konikoni, hūnuku, tīkape, onioni, oreore, kareu, whakangāueue, rangaranga, takataka, neneke, ngatē, ngeungeu, oraora, pakuku, pīoraora, heke, ki hori, hiki
2. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to move, shift, extend, indent (computer).
Kīhai i whakaaetia te tono kia nukuhia te nohoanga o te Pāremete ki tua atu o te tau (TWMNT 5/1/1872:32). / The request that the sitting of Parliament be moved to next year was not agreed to.
3. (noun) wide extent, throughout, length and breadth, all over, all through.
Haere atu ki te āmiomio i te nuku o te whenua, ki te rapurapu pū, ki te rapurapu paura (TH 1/1/1861:1). / Go and travel around the length and breadth of the land to seek for guns and powder.
4. (noun) the Earth.
