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grant, permission, or a grant of privilege or of land
(a loanword from Spanish)

constable or watchman in an outlying district
(a loanword from Spanish)

The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.

a table covering, a tablecloth
(partly a loanword from Spanish, mesa, table)

the head of the table (partly a loanword from Spanish, mesa, table; see Molina)

an inn, a place of lodging for travelers
(a loanword from Spanish)

a metaphor
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), 1.

to plant magueyes (agave plants) (see Molina)

terrace, embankment, or a sloping semi-terrace field (typically planted in magueyes?)

Stephanie Wood, as found in studies of terracing and other land use. See, for example, the research of R. Hunter, 2009, or A. Sluyter 1992 and 2002.

maguey plant, century plant, agave; the basis for the production of pulque and mezcal, alcoholic beverages (see Molina and Karttunen)