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xitoma.

Headword: 
xitoma.
Principal English Translation: 

to scrape something, to remove the skin of something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xītoma
IPAspelling: 
ʃiːtomɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

XĪTOM(A) vt; pret: -TON to scrape something, to remove the skin of something / lo raspa, quita la piel (Z) [(3)Zp.104,105,199]. This appears to be synonymous with XĪPĒHU(A). See XĪP-, TOM(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 326.