to clear land for cultivation (see Karttunen)
MĪLCHIPĀHU(A) to clear land for cultivation / limpia un sembrado (milpa) (Z) [(2)Zp.76, 166]. See MĪL-LI, CHIPĀHU(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 147.