"whatta" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "whattas",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1784, James Cook, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean:",
          "text": "Small offerings of fruit and roots seemed to be daily made at this shrine, as some pieces were quite fresh. These were deposited upon a whatta, or altar, which stood without the pallisades; and within these we were not permitted to enter.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Nicholas Senn, Tahiti: The Island Paradise, page 110:",
          "text": "Not only the whattas or offering-places of the morais are commonly loaded with fruits and animals, but there are few houses lacking a small place of the same sort.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A scaffold used by the Tahitians for animal sacrifices."
      ],
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          "scaffold",
          "scaffold"
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        [
          "Tahitian",
          "Tahitian"
        ],
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ],
        [
          "sacrifice",
          "sacrifice"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, historical) A scaffold used by the Tahitians for animal sacrifices."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "whatta"
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          "ref": "1784, James Cook, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Nicholas Senn, Tahiti: The Island Paradise, page 110:",
          "text": "Not only the whattas or offering-places of the morais are commonly loaded with fruits and animals, but there are few houses lacking a small place of the same sort.",
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      ],
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        "A scaffold used by the Tahitians for animal sacrifices."
      ],
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          "Tahitian"
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        "(archaic, historical) A scaffold used by the Tahitians for animal sacrifices."
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        "archaic",
        "historical"
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