to scrape something, to remove the skin of something (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
xītoma
IPAspelling:
ʃiːtomɑ
Frances Karttunen:
XĪTOM(A) vt; pret: -TON to scrape something, to remove the skin of something / lo raspa, quita la piel (Z) [(3)Zp.104,105,199]. This appears to be synonymous with XĪPĒHU(A). See XĪP-, TOM(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 326.