a needle, or something similar, for stringing together chile peppers
Orthographic Variants:
chilzouani
Alonso de Molina:
chilzouani. aguja, o cosa semejante para ensartar chilli. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 21r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.