1) quarrel, dispute, anger, hurt (see Molina and Karttunen); pain, misery (see Bierhorst)
2) twisted bread or maize dough (see attestations)
3) divine force of fire (see attestations)
4) something bent randomly (see Karttunen)
See an image that represents cocolli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
tonahuatil, in tococol = our law
cocolli = pain, misery
auh cuix yeh techpahtiz yntla peuaz cocolli qualantly ac quipahtiz = y acaso él (que llevó el chisme al virrey) podrá ponernos el remedio si empieza la cólera, la rabia? (s. XVI, Tlaxcala)