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tainamaiti

1. (loan) (verb) (-tia) to dynamite.

Ko te tino piriti nui o te reriwē o Manaturia kua pakaru i te Tiapani, he mea tainamaiti (TP 2/1904:3). / The largest bridge of the Manchurian railway has been destroyed by Japan, having been dynamited.

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2. (loan) (noun) dynamite.

He mea whakatakoto ngā tainamaiti ki te ara o ngā kāreti, te ohonga i oho ai, tītaritari ana ētahi o aua kāreti, e whā tekau tāngata i whara i taua tahunga (KO 15/11/1883:8). / The dynamite was laid on the carriage way and when it exploded some of the carriages were scattered about and forty people were injured in that explosion.

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