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cohuazacatl.

Headword: 
cohuazacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

grass tribute (i.e. providing cut or pulled grass or weeds as tribute for feeding horses)
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), p. 235.

Orthographic Variants: 
cohuaçacatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

ypan tequitiz ypan quichihuaz yn cohuatequitl yn cohuaçacatl yn ixquich nepapan tequitl = on the basis of it, he will do the tribute duties, on it he will perform the public work duty, and (give) the hay tribute and all the various tributes (Culhuacan, 1580)
James Lockhart collection, notes from a folder called "Land and Economy," citing the Testaments of Culhuacan.

themes: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock raising
Tributes, Taxation, Service