2. (noun) pointed stick or instrument with which to take food, skewer.
Ko ia te kaiwhāngai i a Pinepine. He pūrau te tikanga whāngai i a Pinepine, pērā i ngā tohunga tapu o mua atu (TTR 1996:132). / She fed Pinepine in the manner of the sacred tohunga of former times using a pointed stick as the method to feed her.
3. (noun) sea egg, common sea urchin, Evechinus chloroticus - a marine echinoderm which has a spherical or flattened shell covered in mobile spines with a mouth on the underside. Lives under rock ledges below low tide. Covered with long, sharp brown spines and feeds on seaweed.
