pahūtanga
1. (noun) eruption, explosion.
(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 77-93; Te Māhuri Video Tapes (Ed. 1): 1;)
I te pahūtanga tuatahi e rua tekau mā iwa ngā mea i mate, nō tō muri iho e whā tekau mā rima, huihui katoa e whitu tekau mā whā ngā tāngata i mate (TPH 26/7/1912:2). / In the first explosion twenty-nine died and in the one that followed another forty-five, and all together seventy-four people died.
