to drag someone by their hair, or to tear someone's hair out (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quauiuilana, quahuihuilana
Alonso de Molina:
quauiuilana. nite. (pret. onitequauiuilan.) arrastrar a otro delos cabellos o messallo. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 88r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.