tuki
1. (verb) (-a) to attack, knock down, tackle, butt, gore.
Ko 1836 pea te tau i whakatika atu ai te taua o Ngāti Porou, o Ngāti Kahungunu me tō rāua uku o Ngā Puhi i raro i a Te Wera Hauraki, ki te tuki i a Te Whānau-a-Apanui i Toka-ā-Kuku pā i Te Moana-a-Toi-te-huatahi (TTR 1990:164). / About 1836 a war party of Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu, with an allied group of Ngā Puhi led by Te Wera Hauraki, went to attack Te Whānau-a-Apanui at Toka-ā-Kuku pā, in the Bay of Plenty.
2. (verb) (-a) to ram, bump, crash into.
Haere mai tonu te taraka nei, tukia tonuhia te taha katau o te pahi, hahaetia ana taua taha katoa (HP 1991:8). / This truck continued coming, crashing right into the right side of the bus, tearing away all that side.
3. (verb) (-a) to beat, pound.
Ka tukia te hīnau, ka opehia ki roto ki te hītari, ka ruia; nā ka horo ngā kiko ki te kete pai, ko ngā nganga ki roto i te hītari (W 1971:53). / The hīnau berries are pounded, scooped into the sieve and shaken; so the flesh falls into the nice basket, while the seeds remain in the sieve.
Synonyms: kuru, kurukuru, pao, āki, kōmekemeke, pātuki, pāuna, hamahama, pehu, patupatu, tātā, poutuki, whākuru
4. (verb) (-a) to give the timing (to paddlers).
6. (noun) carved wooden mouthpiece of a pūkāea or calabash.
7. (noun) paddling song (to give the timing to paddlers).
He waiata tuki waka, hei whakahauhau i ngā kaihoe (M 2007:160). / A paddling song to encourage the paddlers.
