taua
noun
Elementary
1
A group of Maori warriors sent out as a war party.
“Late that night, while the Hauraki people were celebrating their deliverance, Hongi and his tauā returned to attack under cover of darkness and killed some 60 people still within the pā.”
From Māori tauā.
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