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tlacuicui.

Headword: 
tlacuicui.
Principal English Translation: 

to work wood or stone by chipping or planing off the surface, to clear off a surface (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacuihcui
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwihkwi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACUIHCUI to work wood or stone by chipping or planing off the surface, to clear off a surface / debastar Madera o limpiar el suelo quitando cosas (C), labro piedra o madera como hace el escultor (C for first pers.sg.subject) [(3)Cf.31r]. See CUIHCUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 258–259.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Izcan taiz, izcan ticchioaz: tochpanaz, titlacujcujz = Here is what thou art to perform, here is what thou art to do: thou art to sweep, to clean (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 214.

themes: 
Stones, Masonry
Wood, wooden material