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pilcatoc.

Headword: 
pilcatoc.
Principal English Translation: 

something hung up (See Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
pilkɑtok
Frances Karttunen: 

PILCATOC something hung up / colgado (Z) [(5)Zp.6,30,71,163,182). In three of the attestations Z marks the vowel of the initial syllable long, but it should not be. See PILCA, the verb O.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 195.