haehae
1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to scratch, draw, cut up, lacerate, tear - to lacerate the limbs, body and even the face with flakes of obsidian at tangihanga, particularly by the wife and close female relatives, was a traditional custom.
Koia mātou i mea ai me whakaoho i ngā hipi kei haehaea pūtia e te wuruwhi (TH 4/1859:1). / That's why we said that we should awaken the sheep lest they be savaged by the wolf.
Synonyms: whakahaehae, hahae, hae, harakuku, hōripi, rarapi, hōripiripi, whakangaeke, tiwha, riwha, nanatu, rakaraka, raraku, rapi, hārau, raku, rapirapi, rakuraku
2. (noun) slashing, tearing, scratching, lacerating, cutting up.
Ka puta a Ao-kehu i te rākau rā, ka tīmata tana haehae i te puku o te taniwha me te māripi (Te Ara 2015). / Ao-kehu appeared and began slashing the stomach of the taniwha with the knife.
Synonyms: harakuku, raraku, rapi, rapirapi, rapirapitanga
3. (noun) parallel grooves between lines of the dog-tooth pattern in carving.
Ko te rauponga. I tēnei tauira, ka tāruaruatia te pākati, ā, ka noho mai ēnei ki roto i ngā haehae, arā, ngā rārangi whakarara ki ia taha (RTA 2014:210). / The rauponga carving pattern. In this example, the pākati pattern of rows of chevron-shaped notches is repeated and these sit inside parallel grooves, that is parallel lines on each side.
