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piringi kāta

1. (loan) (noun) cart with springs, spring cart, sprung cart.

Ka mutu taku whakatētē i aku kau i ngā ata, ka tukua e au ki roto i tō rātau taiepa, ka haere au ki te hopu i te hōiho, he rata, ka pārete mai ki te piringi kāta, ka whakamaumau i ngā kākahu, ka ārahi ki ngā ringaringa o te piringi kāta, ka pana whakamuri haere atu ki waenganui, ka whakarewa i ngā ringaringa ki ngā wāhi e tika ana (HP 1991:25). / In the mornings when I’d finished milking my cows, I let them out into their paddock and went to catch the horse, a placid one, and dragged it to the spring cart, put on the clothes, led it to the shafts of the spring cart, backed it between them, then raised the shafts to the right positions.

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