a very thick stick that is placed as a bar for hanging things such as drying meat; a shaft (see Molina); might this also be the matlaccuahuitl that was used in the Valley of Toluca and perhaps other regions for measuring land parcels in groups of ten?
"se nomill" = "one piece of land (milli) of mine;" this was sold by one "don" to another "don" for 11 pesos; it measured 25 quahuitl, said to be 20 and "tlaco" matlacquahuitl, and it held 2.5 almudes of maize seed. It would appear from this example that the matlacuahuitl (or matlaccuahuitl?) was slightly larger than the cuahuitl. (San Miguel Almoloya, Toluca Valley, 1754)
matlaquahuitl, en los Primeros Memoriales = mástiles largos en los cuales se colgaron los tetehuitl; llamado cuemmantli en el Códice Florentino (p. 98)