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cuahuitequi.

Headword: 
cuahuitequi.
Principal English Translation: 

to hit someone with sticks; or, to injure someone in the head with a stick; or, to break up lumps of soil with a hoe or a stick (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauitequi, quahuitequi
Alonso de Molina: 

quauitequi. nite. (pret. onitequauitec.) dar de palos a otro, o herirle en la cabeza con palo, o desboronar terrones con azadon o con palo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 87v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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