(in Maori culture) a pit used for storage, typically of root vegetables and fruit.
they showed me the rua where fruit had been arrayed for storage
Example sentencesExamples
- Underground pits (rua) for root crops such as sweet potato were scattered around the margins.
- You'll find extensive terracing, rua pits and visible former dwellings.
- The most remarkable and economically important was the development of the rua.
- The rua, often with raised rims along the east coast of the North Island, are quite numerous in landscapes where gardening was comm.
- They filled in the trenches and rua with soil.
- The diggers have also uncovered a rua.
- He observed and drew a number of structures called rua kopiha, built in rows on the terraces of the prehistoric pa.
- These pits are common in every village and were called Rua.
- A couple of rua can still be seen on a bank about 30 chains south of the village.
- They hid him in a rua-kumara, a store-pit for kumara dug in the ground.