reke managi

heel, heel-bone.

the fowls' toe pointing backwards; fowl owners used to mark their birds' toes with their teeth. Since the words moa and uha were also used for "son" and "daughter" the expression reke managi was also used to designate a girl betrothed to someone else's son. Just like a man put his mark on a bird ( reke nanagi) he kept custody of the girl entrusted him as future daughter-in-law, he took her home, and looked after her until the wedding: he-oho te atua hiko rega, he-nanagi i te reke o te poki o te tahi tagata, the matchmaker who asks for a girl's hand goes and "marks" the child for the other man.

heel of matá (obsidian), the part which was tied to a shaft or was inserted into the extremity of a shaft to be used as a spear: he reke te kona o te matá mo haha'u ki te kohou.