stocks, a jail; or, stilts for walking (see Molina); literally, wood-foot
Orthographic Variants:
quauh icxitl, cuauh icxitl, quauhicxitl
Alonso de Molina:
quauh icxitl. cepo, prision, o zancos para andar. 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.