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chimalmatlatl.

Headword: 
chimalmatlatl.
Principal English Translation: 

shield hand-sling(s)

(late sixteenth century, Tetzcoco?)
Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de los Señores de la Nueva España, transcribed and translated by John Bierhorst (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009), 32.