part of a metaphorical expression meant to refer to vassals, commmoners, macehuales: quilticanemi (those who pick quelites), quauhticanemi (those who gather firewood)
(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 153, nota 5.