to trim the branches off a tree (see Karttunen)
CUAUHTĒTEQU(I) to trim the branches off a tree / derrama (ramas del árbol) (T) [(3)Tp.119]. See CUAHU(I)-TL, TĒTEQU(I).
CUAUHTĒTEQUILIĀ applic. CUAUHTĒTEQU(I) Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 64.