a poor person who does not have even a small plot of farmland; or, a person who is wanting a plot of land to farm (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
milmayanani. persona pobre que no tiene heredad ni pegujal, o persona desseosa de tener heredad. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 56v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.