to cut wood, firewood, a tree, a stick, or to clearcut forests
Orthographic Variants:
quauhtequi
Alonso de Molina:
quauhtequi. ni. (pret. oniquauhtec.) cortar leña, arbol, o palo, o talar montes. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 87r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.