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piko

1. (verb) to bend, stoop.

Kātahi au ka piko ki te titiro i taku waewae ka kite au e heke ana te toto (HP 1991:23). / Then I bent down to look at my leg and saw the blood flowing.

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2. (stative) bent, curved.

He hanga aroha tō rātou āhua: tawhito ana ngā kākahu, piko ana ngā tuarā, pakoko ana ngā kanohi (TP 1/6/1900:7). / Their appearance was pitiful: the clothes were old, their backs were bent and their faces were gaunt.

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3. (noun) bend, corner, comma.

Waikato taniwha rau, he piko, he taniwha, he piko, he taniwha (Te Ara 2012). / Waikato of a hundred taniwha, at every bend there's a taniwha.

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