a field hand, a rural laborer (literally earth-hand, land-hand)
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), 154.
an important altepetl in the Chalco region 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), 236.
flat places; level land (see Molina); also, land upon which the house was built, often farmed, and sometimes translated as "sitio" or "solar" in Spanish (see attestations)