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tao

1. (verb) (-na,-ngia) to cook.

Ka ngarongaro atu te taua, ka heke ngā tāngata o Rākaipākā, ka whakaemitia ngā tinana o ngā tāngata mate, ka taongia (HP 1991:28). / When the war party disappeared, the people of Rākaipākā descended and gathered the bodies of the people killed and cooked them.

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2. (noun) cooking.

Nō waenganui o ngā te tekau tau mai i 1830, ka taetae mai ngā kaiwhakaako Karaitiana ki Te Māhia. E taki kauwhau ana i te rangimārie; kia whakamutua te tao tangata; kia whakakorehia ngā mahi whawhai (TTR 1990:245). / By the mid 1830s, Christian teachers had arrived at Māhia and were preaching peace, an end to cooking people and an end to fighting.

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