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pollero.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
pollero.
Principal English Translation: 

a poulterer, one who deals in chickens and other poultry
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn opiloloc se mestiso ytoca felipe pullero ocatca auh ychtequi omocueph = a mestizo named Felipe was hanged. He had been a poulterer but turned into a thief.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 140–141.