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cuaxeloa.

Headword: 
cuaxeloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to spill out (as from of an overflowing sack); to pour the excess of something out (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuāxeloā
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːʃeloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀXELOĀ vrefl,vt to spill out (as from of an overflowing sack); to pour the excess of something out / se quita (p.ej. de un costal que tiene demasiado, etc) (T), lo quita, lo riega. lo saca ( lo que sobra del maíz, etc., del bote, costal, etc.) (T) This is abundantly attested and within T contrasts with CUĀXELOĀ ‘to scatter something.’ See CUĀ(I)-TL, XELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 66.