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hake

1. (verb) to be hunched, hunchbacked, crooked, bent.

I a ia kua kaumātuatia, kua tūpuhi, kua hake te tuarā, ko ana pāhau he mangu, he roroa hoki (TTR 1990:357). / In old age he was thin, his back was bent, and he had a long black beard.

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2. (modifier) humped, hunchbacked, bent.

Kei te maumahara tonu i ahau, aku hoa takatāpui, i te wā e tamariki ana, he waewae hape tētahi, he tuarā hake tētahi (TTT 1/1/1925:171). / I still remember my close friends at the time I was young, one had deformed legs, another was hunchbacked.

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3. (noun) hunchback.

Ka hui katoa mai, te iti, te rahi, te rangatira, te tūtūā, te koroheke, te rūruhi, te wahine, te tāne, te mea ora, te tūroro, te hake, te hauā, poto anake mai ki te marae o te pā nei kia kite i a Puhihuia (TAH 45/1963:45). / Everybody gathered, the lowly and important people, chiefs and commoners, elderly men and women, men and women, the healthy and the sick, hunchbacks and cripples, absolutely everybody had gathered on the marae of the pā to see Puhihuia.

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