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apamitl.

Headword: 
apamitl.
Principal English Translation: 

irrigation ditch (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn itenco yn apamitl = at the edge of the irrigation ditch
James Lockhart, Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History (1991), 103.

Combining atl (water) + pamitl (like pantli, row). See pamitl.

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