taumanu
1. (verb) (-tia) to take possession (of another's goods), impound, colonize.
I taea e ia te whakawhere a Ngāti Tama rāua ko Ngāti Rangatahi kia whakatahi, otirā, i kī a ia, nā te hunga Pākehā tūtūā: i mūrei ngā kāinga me ngā mahinga kai, i maoho te whare karakia, i taumanu ō rātou waka (TTR 1990:203). / He managed to persuade Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Rangatahi to withdraw, but reported that 'low Europeans' had plundered the homes and cultivations, broken into the chapel and stolen canoes.
2. (verb) to repossess, foreclose, reclaim.
Nā rātou i hoko mai ētahi pāmu utu nui, engari he mea taumanu ngā mōkete i muri mai (TTR 1996:155). / They bought expensive farms, but the mortgages were later foreclosed.
3. (noun) thwart (of a canoe) - a paddler's seat.
