(now, historical) A rough shack or hut built (by Europeans) using traditional Maori techniques; a workman's shack.
(now, historical) A rough shack or hut built (by Europeans) using traditional Maori techniques; a workman's shack.
A Maori house or other building.
The dwellings of the chiefs are surrounded with enclosures of pole-fences; and the Whares and Wharepunis, some of them exhibiting very fine specimens of the Maori order of architecture, are ornamented with grotesque wood-carvings.
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(NZ, historical) Formerly, a type of traditional Maori school.
(NZ) A large building in Maori communities for communal sleeping or for group meetings; a meeting house.
A rudimentary shelter, especially one used by a mountaineer; a hut.
(archaeology) A prehistoric dwelling typical of northwest Europe in the Iron Age and Bronze Age.