to apply bacon (hot fat?) on a slave (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, tocino, bacon)
Alonso de Molina:
tocino chipinia. nite. (pret. onitetocinochipini.) pingar con tocino al esclauo &c. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 148r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.