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tenaza.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
tenaza.
Principal English Translation: 

pliers, nippers, clamp(s)

Attestations from sources in English: 

ce tenaza teposti (San Francisco Analcotitlan, possibly Jalisco, 1652)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 8.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yhua martiro yhua tenaças yh[u]das = un martillo, unas tenazas [j]untas (Amecameca, 1625)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 168–169.

conanaz tinaza = tome una tenaza(Cuernavaca, 1597)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 306–307.

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