a wooden apparatus for squeezing or pressing something (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quauhilacatztli
Alonso de Molina:
quauhilacatztli. husillo delagar, o prensa para apretar. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 86v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.