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tote

1. (loan) (verb) (-a) to salt, add salt.

He mea tote aua ika (TW 5/1/1877:4). / Those fish are salted.

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2. (loan) (modifier) salted.

Ka rite hoki ia ki te manoao i te koraha, e kore hoki e kite i te putanga mai o te pai; engari ko ngā wāhi waikore o te koraha hei kāinga mōna, he whenua tote, e kore nei e nohoia (PT Heremaia 17:6). / For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.

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3. (loan) (noun) salt.

Haria mai te tote mā tā tāua manuhiri. / Bring the salt for our visitors, please.

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Synonyms: whakatote

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