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cuauhcoyoctli.

Headword: 
cuauhcoyoctli.
Principal English Translation: 

stocks, prison, or a hole made in wood; or, wood with holes carved in it (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcoyoctli
Alonso de Molina: 

quauhcoyoctli. cepo, prision, o agujero hecho en madero, o madero agujerado.
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.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment
Wood, wooden material