to throw a stick or rock hard and have it make the sound of going fast.
# una persona avienta una piedra,o un palo o una fruta y se escucha muy fuerte por donde va.”jose cuando corta naranjas nadamas avienta palos y se mayugan cuando se caen en el suelo.”
the name of a month of twenty days, also called Atl Cahualo; dedicated to the celebration of the rain deities, such as the Tlalocs and Chalchiuhtlicue Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 1, 42.
a deity or legendary figure who helped Huitzilopochtli; he spied for him when Huitzilopochtli was plotting to kill his siblings to save his mother, Coatlicue(central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 2.
stick; wood; tree(s); a forest; a club; a staff of office; also, a unit of measure; referring to a stick used in measurement; a "rod" (though this is much smaller than the English rod); sometimes translated into Spanish as "braza;" often equivalent to the matl (Cline); also, a person's name
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), p. 236.