type of stone used in making metates (see Karttunen)
IPAspelling:
metɬɑtetɬ
Frances Karttunen:
METLATE-TL type of stone used in making metates / piedra de metate (Z) [(1)Zp. 98]. Z also has TEMETL(A)-TL with the same gloss. See METL(A)-TL, TE-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 143.