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a river; a canal or water ditch (see Molina); the lower counterpart to the cuemitl (ridge) in traditional agriculture; possibly also used to demarcate a boundary or the edge of a parcel of land or territory
See an image that represents apantli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
apantli (sometimes spelled anpantli) = a river, or any body of water, but usually long and narrow, rather than wide
auh oc cenca iehoatl, xicmocujtlavican in cuemjtl, in apantli, ipan xitlatocan: auh xontlatepeoacan in mjlpan = And especially take care of the ridge, of the ditch. Plant and sow in the field (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
cujx vel cuemjtl, apantli = perhaps thou wilt make well the ridges of land, the canals (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
onacitica yncan onca ce apantontli = llega hasta a donde está una zanjilla (Tepotzotlan, 1631)
In tlatoque, ca quimocuitlahuitihui, ca ipan tlatotihui in cuemitl, in apantli. = Los reyes van cuidando, van hablando po los camellones, los surcos (la agricultura, el cultivo). (CF/VI, p. 90) (s. XVI, México)
Nican pehua apantli mexicatzinco = aqui comienza en El Lindero yamado Mexicazinco (document translated in the second half of the eighteenth century, Guerrero)