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tepoz apaztli.

Headword: 
tepoz apaztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a copper boiler, cauldron; a sink, or a large metal pan (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tepuz apaztli, tepozapaztli, teposapastli
Alonso de Molina: 

tepuz apaztli. caldera de cobre, bacia o paila.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 103v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

From tepoztli, apaztli.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Metals, Mining