whakahoro
1. (verb) (-a,-ngia,-tia) to accelerate, hasten, hurry (someone), let down, pay out, cause to slip off, demolish, dismantle, flee.
I whakahoro te Poa ki Piritōria, i te pōnānā mahue ake ētahi o ngā pūrepo, me ngā tereina (TP 1/6/1900:6). / The Boers fled to Pretoria and in their haste left behind some of the cannons and trains.
Synonyms: whakatere, whakahohoro, kautuku, whakahinga, tukutuku, whakaheke, tuku
2. (verb) (-a,-ngia) to let down, pay out (a line), fly (a kite).
Ka mahia ngā mahi a Ruhanui, koia ēnei: ko te tūperepere, ko te tōreherehe, ko te kai whakatāpaepae, ko te kokomo, ko te tūmahana, ko te kaihaukai, ko te haka, ko te poi, ko te whakahoro taratahi, ko te tā pōtaka... (TWMNT 11/9/1872:110). / When Vega rose the harvesting of the food began; and when that was done the activities of Ruhanui were carried out, which were these: the ceremony and feast to celebrate the storing of the kūmara crop, tobogganing, the displaying of food, the exchanging of gifts between hosts and visitors, feasting and presenting food, performing haka and poi, flying kites, whipping spinning tops...
3. (verb) (-a,-ngia) cause to crumble down, cause to collapse, cause to slip off, demolish, dismantle.
Ki te rū te whenua, ka tuwhera ngā poka hōhonu, ka whakahoroa ngā maunga, ka hūrorirori ngā whare (TTT 1/7/1929:1029). / If there's an earthquake, deep holes open up, mountains are caused to collapse, and houses sway about.
4. (verb) to pass on, hand on (traditions, etc.).
Ka tuhia e ia ngā tikanga a ngā tohunga, me ngā tikanga whakahoro tamāroa (TTR 1998:75). / He wrote of the rituals of tohunga, and the methods of passing on knowledge to first-born sons.
5. (noun) free from tapu, free from impediments.
I te whakawahinga o te Kīngi i Ngāruawāhia i te 2 o Mei 1859, he maha rātou i ngōki atu i waenganui i ngā kūwhā o Te Wherowhero. Ko tērā tikanga he whakahoro hauhauaitu e whānau hou ai te tangata (TTR 1990:163). / When the King was confirmed at Ngāruawāhia on 2 May 1859, many crawled through Te Wherowhero's thighs. That custom was a whakahoro hauhauaitu whereby a person was being born again symbolically.
