a wooden bowl; washing trough; gold panning device (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quauh apaztli, quauhapaztli, cuauh apaztli
Alonso de Molina:
quauh apaztli. batea. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 86r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.