takere
1. (verb) to be partly filled.
Tae rawa mai ki a au, kua āhua takere kē te wai o roto o te tāpu (HP 1991:52). / When my turn eventually arrived the water in the bath was only partly full.
Synonyms: papanga
2. (noun) bottom.
Kia roa e takoto ana te wai paruparu, kua kōratarata, kua noho mai ngā waipara ki te takere (PK 2008:1051). / When dirty water has been lying for a long time it clears and the sediment settles at the bottom.
3. (noun) seabed, riverbed, lake bed, channel (especially of the sea, rivers and lakes).
Kei ngā takere me ngā tahatika o ngā awa ngā toka pounamu (Te Ara 2013). / The greenstone boulders are in the bottom and the banks of the rivers.
Synonyms: papamoana, kaupapa o te moana, parumoana, kūkūpango, whaiawa, whakatakere
4. (noun) hull (of a canoe).
He mea tono e ia kia haria mai i Tūākau te takere o te waka taua tawhito nei, o Te Winika, ki Tūrangawaewae (TTR 1998:143). / She had the hull of an old war canoe, Te Winika, brought from Tuakau to Tūrangawaewae.
See also tangere
