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copper Maori N.Z.|ˈkɒpə ˈmaʊərɪ|
Also Kopa Maori, Kapura Maori, etc.
[Maori kāpura fire, kopa oven.]
A Maori oven in which food is placed on heated stones and covered with flax, earth, etc.
c1826J. Heberley Autobiogr. 30 (MS.), [They] sucked [the slave girl's] blood..till [she] was dead, then they cut her up and cooked her in a copper Maori. 1834E. Markham N.Z. Recoll. 38 Coppre Mourie or the Native Ovens are described I rather think in Captain Cookes Voyages. They are done this way. They scratch a hole 8 or 10 inches deep..and then light the Fire in the hole. 1888Trans. New Zeal. Inst. XXI. 417 So they set to work and they dug holes in this flat,..each hole about 2 ft. across and about 1½ ft. deep, and shaped something like a ‘kopa maori’. 1889Ibid. XXII. 104 A number of kapura Maori, or native ovens. 1905W. B. Where White Man Treads 102 ‘Coppa Maori’, ‘Maori oven’, etc.—these are the slang names given by those who know no better. |