单词 | copper maori |
释义 | copper Maorin. New Zealand. A Maori oven in which food is placed on heated stones and covered with flax, earth, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > oven > earth oven native oven1820 copper Maoric1826 Maori oven1840 kohua1843 umu1845 hangi1861 imu1928 c1826 J. 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. 1834 E. 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. 1888 Trans. 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’. 1889 Trans. New Zeal. Inst. XXII. 104 A number of kapura Maori, or native ovens. 1905 W. Baucke Where White Man Treads 102 ‘Coppa Maori’, ‘Maori oven’, etc.—these are the slang names given by those who know no better. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1826 |
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