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tua

1. (verb) (-ina) to fell, cut down.

Ko te mahi nei a tētahi he tō tīni, tā tētahi he tua rākau, tā tētahi he amo kāheru (TW 12/10/1878:511). / The job of one was to drag a chain, another’s was to cut trees down and another was to carry spades.

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