| 释义 |
pikau, n. N.Z.|ˈpiːkaʊ|
Also peko, pico.
[Maori.]
A pack for carrying on the back, a knapsack, a swag. Also attrib. Hence ˈpikau v. trans., to carry (a pack) on the back.
1836J. A. Wilson Jrnl. 23 Aug. in Missionary Life & Work N.Z. (1889) iii. 48 Our natives weary with their pikaus. 1847G. F. Angas Savage Life II. i. 3 [The natives] severally carried [our baggage] in their pikau or knapsacks, strapped over their shoulders with the leaves of flax. 1848McLean Papers V. 265 (MS.) One of the natives left us at Woons..so we had to put the pico on the mule and trudge along. 1851J. C. Richmond Let. 25 Mar. in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) I. ii. 79 We were 6 in party, ourselves, young Stark & 3 Maoris with ‘pikau’ burdens. 1874W. M. Baines Narr. E. Crewe iii. 49 [The pig's] legs [were] tied together so as to make him a handy ‘pikau’. 1882W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! II. 94 Both men and women [sc. Maoris] are able to pikau (hump, or carry on the back and shoulders) great weights. 1882T. H. Potts Out in Open 24 A line of women and girls..have just brought away from the potato pits their heavily-laden kits, carried pikau fashion. 1892E. S. Brookes Frontier Life 148 Most of us were now loaded with heavy pekoes or swags on our backs. 1902W. Satchell Land of Lost vii. 50 He..commenced to fill his pikau. 1911Chambers's Jrnl. 4 Mar. 223/2 We succeeded almost noiselessly in doing to death a fine young sow, and, having cut up the carcass, started for camp with the meat ‘pikaued’ (carried as in a knapsack) in sugar-bags on our shoulders. 1950F. Sargeson in Landfall IV. 285 The rest of his [sc. a farmer's] luggage would be a peko slung on his shoulders. 1958Tararua XII. 27 The gumdiggers used a pikau, a bag with shoulder straps, a good deal smaller than the usual tramper's pack. 1960B. Crump Good Keen Man 123 To ensure [my dog] Flynn's co-operation I tied him to my belt with the rope off my pikau. |
