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tlamotlani.

Headword: 
tlamotlani.
Principal English Translation: 

someone who chases something or someone away by throwing stones; slingshot (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamōtlani
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmoːtɬɑni
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAMŌTLANI pl: -MEH someone who chases something or someone away by throwing stones; slingshot / aventador (T), honda (X) [(1)Tp.233, (3)Xp.92]. See MŌTLA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 282.

themes: 
Stones, Masonry