to play or ring dangling pieces of metal (see Molina); to play the rattle (see Karttunen)
auh in iquac y, aiacachpixolo vmpa iopico: auh ça iehoanti, in calpulueuetque, vmpa pouhque iopico, cujcatoque, aiacachtoque, ye ouetzi cemilhujtl = And this was when the rattle boards were sown there at the Temple of Yopitli. And they, the old men belonging to the Temple of Yopitli, sat singing and rattling their rattle boards until the day was done. (16th century, Mexico City)