a shoe sole, a pattern for shoemaking, a measure for shoemaking, or the like (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
cachuapalli, cacuapalli
Alonso de Molina:
Cacvapalli. suela o norma de çapato, o cosa semejaute. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana, 1571, (www.idiez.org.mx), f. 11r.