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costal.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
costal.
Principal English Translation: 

sack
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

ome costal yhuan ce pesotica tochomitl = two sacks and rabbit skin worth a peso (Saltillo, 1627)
Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 428–429.

xalma quipoloto yhuan preçada yhuan coxtal = a packsaddle he lost, and a horse blanket and sacks (San Bartolomé Atenco, Coyoacan, 1617)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 3, 62–63.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nahuy coxtal tonacayotl = cuatro costales de maíz (Zempoala, "1610", but probably Techialoyan -related)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 80–81.