2. (verb) (-a) to wave about, wield, brandish.
Tō uru mahora ka piua e te tai (TTT 1/12/1928:s76). / Your lank hair was washed about by the tide.
3. (verb) (-a) to skip (with a rope).
Ka emi mai te mano o te tāngata ki te haka, ki te waiata, ki te piu, ki te tutukai, ki te tī, ki te ponga, ki te punipuni, ki te tākaro, ki te pūkana, ki te mahi tinihanga a te Māori (G 1853:vi). / Masses of people gathered to perform haka, to sing, to skip, to play knucklebones, to play hand games, to play the ponga game, to play finger games, to wrestle, to perform the pūkana, and other amusements of the Māori.
4. (noun) skipping, skipping rope.
5. (noun) throwing, tossing, casting, flinging, whirling, swinging.
Mehemea kei raro tere tonu te piu a te māhē ki muri, ki mua rānei o te waka, ki te papa rānei o te waka (JPS 1927:355). / Should it be a deep-flowing current, then the sinker should be cast quickly at the stern or bow of the vessel, or in the vessel's course.
6. (noun) knucklebones move.
Ko te ‘piu’: Ka puritia ngā kōhatu e rima ki te ringa. Ka whiua tētahi, ka whakatakotoria ērā atu o ngā kōhatu e whā ki te papa, me te hopu anō i te kōhatu i whiua (RMR 2017). / The 'piu': The five stones are held in the hand. When one is thrown the other four stones are placed on the ground and the stone that was thrown up is caught again.
