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anzadón.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
anzadón.
Principal English Translation: 

a metal tool for working the soil, often equated with tlaltepoztli (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
anzaron
Attestations from sources in English: 

Aun çentetl anzaron tlaltepoztli yhuan çentetl notepozhuic yhuan çe nocochilo = And I have a hoe, a tool to work the soil, and a digging stick with a metal tip, and also a knife (Culhuacan, 1580)
Testaments of Culhuacan (provisionally modified first edition), eds. Sarah Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, online version http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 18.