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toropuke

1. (noun) mound, hillock.

I Noema 1852, ka tūpono te mihingare tai, a James West Stack, i a Karetai rāua ko tana wahine taitamariki nei, e noho ana me tā rāua tamaiti i tō rāua kāinga, papa rākau kani, rūma kotahi; i te toropuke i Ōtākou e tū ana (TTR 1990:27). / In November 1852 the young missionary James West Stack found Karetai and his young wife living in a one-roomed weatherboard house on the hill at Ōtākou.

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Synonyms: tapuke, tautuku, ahu, puke, ahuahu, pukepuke

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