through the reversing of shields; apparently a metaphor for a type of defeat through trickery (see attestation)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 76–77.
chinampa, chinamit, and see the loanword(?) tinamit in K'iché texts
a reed or cane fence or enclosure; a wall; a subunit of an altepetl; a chinampa (raised lakebed garden) or agricultural strip James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 214.
a long narrow extension of farm land built by human hands and stretching into the freshwater lakes around Mexico City (see also chinamitl); entered Spanish as chinampa S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 235.
a person of the region where chinampa agriculture is practiced; a person from the communities of Xochimilco, Cuitlahuac, and Itztapalapan, etc. (plural: chinampaneca) (see the Florentine Codex Book 12, Chapter 33, and attestations)
a type of agricultural field--wavy? with ridges and furrows?; the term appears to combine chinamitl (agricultural strip or chinampa) with a reduplication of colli (something bent or twisted) or just cocol (entrusted to someone)