to tear a person's hair out or shave/shear that person (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quauiuitla, quahuihuitla
Alonso de Molina:
quauiuitla. nite. (pret. onitequauiuitlac.) messar o repelar a otro. 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.