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cuauhcuechtli.

Headword: 
cuauhcuechtli.
Principal English Translation: 

wood debris, wood shavings, sawdust (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhcuēchtli
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwkweːtʃtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHCUĒCH-TLI wood debris, wood shavings, sawdust / basura de palos, que trae la creciente, viruta, aserrín (T) [(1)Tp.119]. See CUAHU(I)-TL, CUĒCH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 62.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Wood, wooden material
See also: 
cuahuitl.
cuechtli.