a lathe; or, an iron tool for reeling or spinning silk
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 428–429; and, Kevin Terraciano, Codex Sierra (2021), 152.
a Spanish surname; e.g. fray Juan de Torquemada was the Franciscan friar who wrote the Monarquia indiana, which was published in Seville in 1615; he apparently drew from codices for this monumental work about the indigenous peoples of (primarily) central Mexico
See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 20.
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), 240.