a cord, strip, or sash used to tie things together; or a rope that linked horses together so that they could walk in a straight line
(a loanword from Spanish)
1. for s.t. to be squeeky clean. 2. for a door, a chair or a tree branch to creak. 3. for a rope that is bearing a weight to creak.
# 1. Se escucha un fiero cuando alguien lo toca donde está bien lavado. “Mi tía cuando lava sus platos con limón se quedan rechinando de limpio”. 2. Se ve bonito y blanco el nixtamal cuando le quitan bien su cáscara. “Muchas veces lo lavé aquel nixtamal y se quedó rechinando”. 3. La puerta lo que ya se está descomponiendo o no tiene aceite se escucha cuando alguien lo cierra. “Mi papá se enoja cuando cerramos la puerta cada ratito porque se escucha muy fuerte”.
town council members, generally 3rd in status on the town council
(a loanword from Spanish); this was a term used for both indigenous and Spanish officials
plow; also, in the plural, bars, grille work
(a loanword from Spanish)
Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 432–433.
(central Mexico, sixteenth century) 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), chapter 29.