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huilana.

Headword: 
huilana.
Principal English Translation: 

to go along dragging or crawling on all fours on the ground; or, to drag something (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
uilana
IPAspelling: 
wilɑːnɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

uilana. nino. (pret. oninouilan.) andar arrastrando y agatas por el suelo.
uilana. nitla. (pret. onitlauilan.) arrastrar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 157v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUILĀN(A) vrefl,vt to drag oneself along; to drag something / andar arrastrando y a gatas por el suelo (M), arrastrar algo (M) T has HUILĀN(A) in the compound ĀHUILĀN(A) ‘to swim’ but elsewhere the variant HUELĀNA HUELATZIN, HUĒHUELATZIN HUILĀN TLI.

HUILĀNALŌ nonact. HUILĀN(A)

HUELĀN(A) See HUILĀN(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 89.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents huilana in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).