moa-huntingn.
/ˈməʊəˌhʌntɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmoʊəˌhən(t)ɪŋ/, New Zealand English /ˈmʌuəˌhʌn(t)ɪŋ/ New Zealand. Chiefly historical.
The hunting of moas, esp. as a characteristic of an early Maori culture.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > [noun] > catching specific bird
birding1872
mutton-birding1872
moa-hunting1905
1905 E. L. M. White My N.Z. Garden 109 Moa-hunting might afford good sport, and their joints give variety to the butchers' shops.
1948 J. C. Cowan Down Years in Maniototo 5 The greenstone and the moa-hunting expeditions would halt wherever food was available.
1989 A. Anderson Prodigious Birds 157 Moa-hunting was very probably an individual or small group activity in which snares, dogs and wooden spears were used.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
moa-huntingadj.
/ˈməʊəˌhʌntɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmoʊəˌhən(t)ɪŋ/, New Zealand English /ˈmʌuəˌhʌn(t)ɪŋ/ New Zealand. Chiefly historical.
That hunts moas.
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the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Maori > [adjective]
Maori1834
moa-hunting1872
1872 J. von Haast in Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1871 4 78 Proceeding now to an examination of the traces left by the moa-hunting population.
1876 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 5 461 The stone implements of the Maoris evinced a higher state of development towards civilisation than those of the moa-hunting natives.
1994 Times 18 Nov. (Suppl. on N.Z.) p. xii/4 A lot of the forest was burnt by moa-hunting Maoris and grass-hungry settlers.
2000 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 12 Mar. 1 g Parapenters..drifted in the sky above town, like giant, moa-hunting eagles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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