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‖ patu N.Z.|ˈpatʊ|
Also 8–9 pat(t)oo. Also in redupl. form.
[Maori.]
A short club-like weapon with sharpened edges made of stone, whalebone, or nephrite, used for striking rather than thrusting.
1769J. Cook Jrnl. 12 Nov. (1955) I. 200 They have short Truncheons about a foot long, which they call Pattoo Pattoos, some made of wood some of bone and others of stone. 1770J. Banks Endeavour Jrnl. (1962) II. 26 Patoo patoos as they calld them, a kind of small hand bludgeon of stone, bone or hard wood most admirably calculated for the cracking of skulls. 1817J. L. Nicholas Narr. Voyage to N.Z. I. iii. 89 The men in the canoe..exhibited..mats, spears, hooks, fishing-lines, thread, pattoo pattoos (war implements). 1882T. H. Potts Out in Open 82 It [sc. fern-root] was soaked, roasted, and repeatedly beaten with a small club (patu) on a large smooth stone, till it was supple. 1921H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira x. 77 Tua Kiaki pulled out a patu concealed beneath his mat, and with it there and then slew Te Mautaranui. 1949P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) ii. xi. 277 The short clubs (patu poto)..are made in three types: the mere, kotiate, and wahaika..the whalebone clubs carrying the descriptive name of patu paraoa (patu, club; paraoa whalebone). 1974Nat. Geographic Dec. 760 (caption) This Tahitian war club is older than the similar patu of the New Zealand Maori. |