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koneke

koneke noun: a farm vehicle used in New Zealand that has wheels in the back like a cart and runners in front like a sledge.

Noun

koneke (plural konekes or koneke)

  1. A farm vehicle used in New Zealand that has wheels in the back like a cart and runners in front like a sledge.
    • There are the tracks of sledge runners on the narrowing road; that lonely farmhouse around the next bend, a dairy farm twelve hundred feet or more above the harbour level, sends its milk-cans down to the bay by the old-style bush koneke that is the only means of conveyance on some of these lofty...1931, New Zealand Railways Magazine - Volume 6
    • I have been shocked to see young children put on a koneke loaded with hay, with the tractor in crawler gear moving down a hill and the farmer pitching off bales of hay.1965, New Zealand Parliament, Parliamentary Debates: House of Representatives, page 2835

Forms of koneke

pluralkonekes
pluralkoneke
alternative formkonaki

Origin of koneke

Borrowed from Māori kōneke.

Questions about koneke

What does koneke mean?
Koneke means a farm vehicle used in New Zealand that has wheels in the back like a cart and runners in front like a sledge.
What part of speech is koneke?
Koneke is a noun.
What is the plural of koneke?
The plural of koneke is konekes.

Words near koneke in the dictionary

  1. Kone
  2. Konecny
  3. Konecnys
  4. Konefal
  5. Konefals
  6. koneke
  7. konekes
  8. Konen
  9. Konens
  10. Kones
  11. Konetchy

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