the act of picking beans, or lima beans by hand or with a knife (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
etequiliztli. el acto de coger frisoles assi, o hauas. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 29r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.