to bend, twist (see Karttunen)
CUĒCUĒLOĀ vrefl to bend, twist / se tuerce (T) [(3)Tp.147,(2)Zp.37,169]. M has cuecuel as an element in compounds having to do with twisting.
CUĒCUĒLŌLŌ nonact. CUĒCUĒLOĀ Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 68.