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whakateuru

1. (modifier) towards the west, westwards.

(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 112;)

Nāwai, ā, ka riro i te iwi nei te mana o te rohe, atu i Whangarae, kei te pito raki-mā-rāwhiti o Waimea, whakateuru ki Onetahua, rere whakatetonga ana mā te tuawhenua o te Tai o Poutini, tatū ai ki Māwhera (Te Ara 2014). / After some time this tribe dominated the territory from Croisilles Harbour in north-eastern Tasman Bay, westwards to Farewell Spit, and the West Coast hinterlands to Greymouth.

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