to cut the upper portion of a plant with a machete (many times in order to clear a field or pasture).
A. Una persona hombre cortó un arbol nada mas en las puntas. “Yo corte zacate alla en la escuelanadamas en las puntas”.
B. Cortar algo solo en las puntas.
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), 221.