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yaoquizque.

Headword: 
yaoquizque.
Principal English Translation: 

squadron, or army of soldiers (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
yauhquizque
Alonso de Molina: 

yaoquizque. esquadron, oexercito de soldados.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 31r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

1560 año 3 decpaxivitl...oc sepa yaque yauhquizque la prorida aytec = 1560 3 Flint-knife year...Once again warriors went to Florida, across the sea. (Anales de Tlaxcala, 1519–1720)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 2, p. 51. Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

themes: 
War, Conflict