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limeta.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
limeta.
Principal English Translation: 

a leather bottle, short and wide(?)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ce limeta yca tonpiatli catqui = una limeta con un tompiate
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 242–243.

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