Meaning of koneke | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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 roads.”

“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.”

“He used to blow his stack properly when he had his three-horse team hitched up to a koneke load of fertiliser.”

CEFR level