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cuauhilacatzoa.

Headword: 
cuauhilacatzoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to turn a round piece of wood (probably like a log) with one's feet (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauh ilacatzoa, cuauh ilacatzoa
Alonso de Molina: 

quauh ilacatzoa. ni. (pret. oniquauh ilacatzo.) boltear con los pies vn palo rollizo. 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: 

See an image that represents cuauhilacatzoa in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Sports, Games, Leisure
Wood, wooden material
See also: 
cuauhtlatlaza.
cuauhtlatlazaliztli.
cuauhtlatlazani.