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cuauhtlatzacualli.

Headword: 
cuauhtlatzacualli.
Principal English Translation: 

a wooden palisade or stockade (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlatzatzaqualli, quauhtlatzacualli
Alonso de Molina: 

quauhtlatzaqualli. palenque o estacada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 87v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ynic ҫatepan oquihualmotlacahualtilique. yn aocmo oncan tlamiminaloz. corral, yc oquixitinique mochi yn quauhtlatzatzaqualli oncan quimanca. moch oquiquixtique = so that afterward they prohibited bullfighting in the corral any longer and tore down all the wooden enclosures he had set up there; they removed them all (central Mexico, 1611)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 192–3.

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