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huitzan.

Headword: 
huitzan.
Principal English Translation: 

ancient yard (a measure)
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 145.

Orthographic Variants: 
cennequetzalpan
Attestations from sources in English: 

an old-style measure (vara de las antiguas), or more usefully, a braza measured from the foot to the hand, that is, apparently the distance from the ground to the hand of a standing man held as far as it would reach over his head, perhaps seven to eight feet or more, depending on the person's height.
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 145.

themes: 
Measurements, Quantities