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▪ I. ‖ whare|ˈfare, ˈhwɒrɪ, ˈwɒrɪ|
Also 9- wurrie, ware, warree, warré, wharre, wharry.
[Maori whare, ware house.]
1. A Maori hut or native dwelling.
1807J. Savage Some Acct. N.Z. xi. 77 Wurrie, a house, or hut. 1817J. L. Nicholas Voyage to N.Z. I. xii. 352 A young woman..beckoned to me to accompany her to her warree or hut. 1833H. Williams in H. Carleton H.W. (1874) 151 The Europeans, who were near us in a raupo whare (rush house). 1852Mundy Antipodes (1857) 179 A capital breakfast..was served in a handsome glass-windowed and carpeted warree. 1865Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Sept. 9/2 Lounging among the wharres of a pah. 1875Wood & Lapham Waiting for Mail 31 He pulled up..beside a wharry. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 63 A smart man he, and transacted his business in a very handsome wharè.
2. Hence gen., a hut or shed; spec. on a sheep station, a building where the hands sleep or eat. Also with defining word.
1853A. S. Atkinson Jrnl. 26 Oct. in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 135 James and I went to the site chosen for our new whare. 1853J. M. Richmond Let. 11 Nov. in Ibid. 133 Their ‘wharre’, as it is called, is a most romantic tho' not v. commodious dwelling;..it is in fact a roof on the ground, thatched with nikau, a palm, the only one in N.Z. 1891R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xv. 225 Pioneering, or cutting a place out of the bush and building a log ‘wharë’, is extremely rough and lonely work. 1904‘G. B. Lancaster’ Sons o' Men 4 He scudded across the tussock flat to the eating-wharé; burst open the door, and cast the word loose on the boys. 1926A. F. Webb in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 205 We had dinner at twelve and made a plum duff because there was time to cook it while we were all about the whare. 1939J. Mulgan Man Alone viii. 95 You'll be sleeping in the whare down there... There's no room in the house. 1963B. Pearson Coal Flat vii. 141 Eventually Miss Dane said: ‘Time I got back to the whare.’ 1972M. Shadbolt Strangers & Journeys i. 29 They found he had built a whare. A one-room shack of roughly-split timber.
3. Special combinations. whare puni, a (Maori) family sleeping-house (see also quot. 1911); whare runanga [runanga], a Maori council chamber.
1911W. H. Koebel In Maoriland Bush xx. 262 It is regrettable that the interpretations of the carvings upon the beams and panels of the old whare-punis or meeting-houses have been lost. 1926H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira (ed. 2) 86 A whare-puni or sleeping-house. 1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. May 502/2 The great michi, the barge boards of a whare-puni (a sleeping house).
1891R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xiv. 218 A special house of assembly, the whare runanga..is set apart in which to receive and entertain strangers. 1910J. Cowan Maoris of N.Z. xii. 163 Most Maori villages of any importance contain at least one whare-whakairo, a large house..used as the communal assembly hall, council-place (whare-runanga),..and guest-house (whare-manuhiri). 1955W. J. Phillips Maori Carving Illustr. 40 The Assembly House or whare runanga is often well adorned with carvings.
▪ II. whare
obs. shortened form of wharrow.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 272/1 A Ropers Whare or Wharve, or Wheele Spindle.
▪ III. whare
obs. form of where. |