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cuahuilacatzoa.

Headword: 
cuahuilacatzoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to play with a pole using one's feet; or, to bend and join together small trees or tender and long branches (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauilacatzoa, quahuilacatzoa
Alonso de Molina: 

quauilacatzoa. ni. (pret. oniquauilacatzo.) jugar, o traer el palo con los pies, o torcer y juntar los arbolicos o ramas tiernas y largas vnas con otras.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 87v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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