| 释义 |
futtah N.Z.|ˈfʌtə|
Also futter, whata, etc.
Early spellings representing the pronunciation of Maori whata, a food-store raised on posts.
1834E. Markham N.Z. or Recollections of It 37, I have seen a Wutter or Platform 80 feet above ground in an immense Tree all the Branches cut off And a Platform well secured, and the Potatoes on it and thatched over. 1878E. S. Elwell Boy Colonists 100 Walker..afterwards gave him another pair of trousers from the futtah. 1888A. H. Duncan Wakatipians iii. 22 The buildings at the home-station..were represented by a ‘futter’ and a long narrow hut. 1891Rep. Austral. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. III. 378 The men gathered the food and stored it in whatas or store-rooms, which were attached to every chief's compound, and built on tall posts to protect the contents from damp and rats. 1892N.Z. Alpine Jrnl. I. ii. 95 Our second [camp] was in George's Creek, where we built a ‘futtah’ for the provisions. 1954E. C. Studholme Te Waimate (ed. 2) iii. v. 260 Most stations..had a futtah—a corruption of the Maori word, whata, meaning ‘a raised store⁓house in which food is kept’. |