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What does umu mean?

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Noun
  1. An earth oven used by the Maori.
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In an out-door pit that Tongans call an umu, a whole pig is roasted with foods like chicken, fish, meat, sweet potatoes, fish and taro.
Food is prepared in an umu, an oven dug in the earth and filled with firewood and basalt rocks.
The feast is overflowing with pork, delivered whole on spits from underground umu ovens.
Harry therefore gave the word to umu, who in turn uttered a few sharp orders to the men, whereupon the ranks closed up.

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