whakapukepuke
1. (verb) (-tia) to build mounds, build stopbanks.
Nāna anō i whakawātea te whenua, i whakapukepuke, ā, he mea āta whakapūreirei e ia ki te rau rākau kia pai ai te tupu o ana kūmara (NIT 1995:55). / She cleared the ground herself, made mounds and strewed them with humus so that the kūmara would grow well.