📚 Waka, noun. 🔉 /ˈwɑːkə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (New Zealand): A traditional Maori canoe. ❗️ Examples: 1. The waka, the spiritual image for the march, left Stewart Island for Bluff with its cargo of stories. 2. When our wakas originally came to Aotearoa and landed, the first thing our menfolk did was to walk the land and claim it, by leaving stone markers. 3. The hapu decided they would build their own waka, a canoe big enough to carry at least a dozen fishermen to sea. 4. After paying homage, looking around the museum, and looking again at the magnificent waka and the many treasures and taonga in the museum, we would then trot off to the Auckland Zoo. 5. Every 2 years, countries from all around the world unite to determine who are the best waka ama paddlers in the world, and next year it is being held here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic