1. (verb) (-a) to plant (root crops, etc.), throw one by one, place one by one.
2. (noun) planting (of root crops).
Kāore e roa te tiri ka pau ngā purapura, heoi anō ka haere te rongo ko te waerenga a mea kua oti te kōiri (TPH 12/8/1905:2). / They weren't planting for long when the seed potatoes were all used up, and then the news went out that planting of so-and-so's garden had been completed.
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