1. (noun) weka, woodhen, Gallirallus australis greyi, Gallirallus australis australis - a brown-feathered endemic bird streaked with black with a short bill and legs, able to run fast but flightless.

(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 1, 10;)

1. (noun) flute for calling weka.

(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 165;)

1. The weka nest: said of something that is disheveled.

1. (noun) red paint - made by mixing a certain kind of red clay with weka or shark oil.

1. (stative) to be disordered, ragged, untidy, all over the place, muddled - a metaphor from the untidy nature of a weka nest.