tōpū
1. (verb) (-tia) to be assembled, in a body, as a group.
I muri mai ka tōpū te noho o Ngāti Manawa rāua ko Te Hikutū ki te kāinga o Thomas McLean, ka tangohia ana kau mā rātou, ā, ka hangā he pā mō rātou ki ana papa rākau (TTR 1990:57). / Later Ngāti Manawa and Te Hikutū lived as a group at the settlement of Thomas McLean, appropriating his livestock and building a pā with his timber planks.
2. (modifier) consolidated, merged, combined, united, assembled.
Ka noho ko Mītere te kaitirotiro mō te takiwā ki Rotorua, ina nei mō Horohoro tonu, me ngā whenua tōpū o Te Arawa–Rūātoki, tae atu hoki ki te whenua o Te Tāheke (TTR 1996:98). / Mitchell became their supervisor for the Rotorua area, working particularly on Horohoro, the Te Arawa–Rūātoki land consolidation and the Te Tāheke land.
Synonyms: hanumi
3. (particle) (numeral) pair, couple, a brace, two times - when added to a number it indicates double the number.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 160;)
Ka haere mai a Ngā Puhi me Ngāti Whātua, kotahi rau tōpū rātou. / Ngā Puhi and Ngāti Whātua came, 200 of them.
He hokowhitu tōpū, arā, e 280 ngā toa, i whakahiatotia ake i Te Ihupuku, i Tīhoi, i Pātea hoki (TTR 1990:148). / A force of 280 warriors were assembled from Te Ihupuku, Tīhoi and Pātea.
