Results for 'tārai'
tārai - to shape or fashion timber with an adze
Tārai (i), tārei, taratarai, v.t. Dress, shape, fashion, particularly of working timber with an adze. Te maunga atu ki te toki ka tarai ano i te waka ra (T. 51). Te wahine nana i hari mai te wai pounamu hei taratarai atu i te poupou.—Ka taraia te kaheru (T. 7). He kowhatu topuku tonu, he mea tarei ki te kiripaka. Used of dressing the hair. Ka mea atu a Kahungunu ki to ratou tohunga kia taraia tona mahunga.—Ka huaina taua puke ko Te-tarai-o-Rahiri, i tarataraia hoki tona matenga, ara i herua. Toki tārai, stone adze for dressing timber.
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Tārai (ii), n. Basket for fern root. Ka rua tekau nga tarai roi.
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Ko ngā tohunga nāna te waka i tārai.
The experts who carved the canoe.
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Kua oti kē i a Pou te Tārai tōna waka.
Pou had already finished adzing out his canoe.
Statives with 'i' - i a, i te, i ngā
He mōhio ia ki te tārai waka
He is knowledgeable about canoe making
Ka hoki anō a Rata ki te tarai i tana waka.
Rata returned to adze out his canoe.
E kīa ana he tino mōhio ia ki tēnei mahi, ki te tārai waka
It is said that he is very knowledgeable about carving out canoes
Ka haere a Ruatapu rātou.ko āna tuākana ki.te tārai waka.
Ruatapu and his brothers went to adze out a canoe.
Ko taua waka nā Ngāti Pāoa i tārai i 1769.
That canoe was built by Ngāti Pāoa in 1769.
