cuauhtzatzaztli.

Headword: 
cuauhtzatzaztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a wooden structure or frame where captives were tied and then shot with arrows as a form of human sacrifice/offerings (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 185.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtzatzaztli