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yacapiloa.

Headword: 
yacapiloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to draw something out into a point (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yacapīloā
IPAspelling: 
yɑkɑpiːloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

YACAPĪLOĀ vt to draw something out into a point / le adelgazo la punta, torciéndole (C referring to threading a needle) [(1)Cf.127v]. See YAC(A)-TL, PĪLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 333.