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huitoloa.

Headword: 
huitoloa.
Orthographic Variants: 
uitoloa
IPAspelling: 
wiːtoːloɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

uitoloa. nitla. (pret. onitlauitolo.) enarcar sin tirar flecha, o doblegar vara, o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 157v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUĪTŌLOĀ vt to bend, arch something / enarcar sin tirar flecha, o doblegar vara o cosa semejante (M) This is implied by HUĪTŌLIHU(I) See TŌLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 90.