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cuauhchiquihuitl.

Headword: 
cuauhchiquihuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a wooden basket

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchiquiuitl, quauhchiquihuitl
Alonso de Molina: 

quauhchiquiuitl. chiquiuitl de tablas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 86v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

aocac macehualli tlamamaz yxcuatica yn iuh muchiuhtihuiz quinmamaltia huehuey cuauhchiquihuitl yhuan yn ҫaҫo tley huehuey tlamamalli oquinmamaltiaya frayles yhuan españoles [...] ҫa caualloti yn quintlamamalizque ohtlipan = commoners are no longer to carry loads using their foreheads, as happens when they load them with large wooden baskets, or when the friars and Spaniards make them bear any kind of heavy load [...] only horses are to carry for them on the road (central Mexico, 1613)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 256–7.