‖ toki N.Z.
(ˈtɔki)
[Maori.]
A Maori war adze or axe, usu. of stone. Freq. with defining addition.
| 1860 A. S. Atkinson Let. 9 Apr. in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 559 It was perfectly innocuous, I believe, in the ordinary way of guns and was probably intended not to hit us but to frighten us into a fit state for nobbling with the toki. 1905 W. B. Where White Man Treads 93 The Maori was..provided with no more efficient tool..than the ‘toki panehe’ (stone axe). 1949 P. H. Buck Coming of Maori ii. vi. 188 The ceremonial adze termed toki pou tangata was formed of a nephrite adze lashed to a carved haft. |