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pakihi|ˈpɑːkihi|
Also pakahi, paki.
[Maori.]
An area of open, swampy, land, esp. characteristic of north-western parts of the South Island of New Zealand; also, the type of waterlogged soil associated with such land. Also attrib.
1861J. von Haast Rep. Topogr. & Geol. Explor. Nelson Province iv. 131, I shall now enumerate the different pakis, or open tracts of land, and give a short description of them. 1871C. L. Money Knocking about in N.Z. v. 63 We suddenly came out of the bush on to an open pakihi some miles in length. 1896N.Z. Alpine Jrnl. II. 148 The only patch of rata bush on the flat, the rest being partly open ‘pakihi’ and partly covered with low scrub and timber. 1919L. J. Wild Soils & Manures in N.Z. v. 53 Pakihi Soils of Westland..occur over considerable tracts of sour, swampy, but easily drained terrace lands. 1930J. Devanny Bushman Burke 14 The supplies..had been packed by horse along a track cut out of the bush, and further, up towards the Ridge, the pakahi. 1947P. Newton Wayleggo (1949) x. 110 Little pakihis ran up into the bush every here and there. 1959A. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. p. xiv, The souls in the scrub-covered terraces are gley podzols (pakihi). 1959G. Slatter Gun in my Hand 76 Green swamp-water, a tangle of black⁓berry or pakahi beside the twisting railway line. 1970N.Z. Listener 7 Dec. 6/3 The 33 million acres of sour and barren ‘pakihi’ soil [on the West Coast of N.Z.]. Ibid. 6/5 So what about all that pakihi? It is red-brown, depressing land whose drainage is blocked by an impervious iron pan. 1972P. Newton Sheep Thief ix. 72 He set off up the creek in search of the horses. He found them grazing in a little pakihi. 1973Massey Ferguson Rev. (N.Z.) Mar.–Apr. 3/1 Two farmers a few miles away from Bald Hill have successfully transformed 170 acres of pakihi by using much the same over-sowing methods as the department. |
