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tlahuilana.

Headword: 
tlahuilana.
Principal English Translation: 

to drag wooden beams or heavy stones (see Molina); or, just to drag something (see, for example, Xochitlahuilan, a personal name glyph in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, f. 659r.)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlauilana
Alonso de Molina: 

tlauilana. ni. (pret. onitlauilan.) arrastrar madera, o piedras grandes.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 144v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlahuilana in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).