to tear out a person's hair; or, to shave/shear the hair of that person (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quauilana, quahuilana
Alonso de Molina:
quauilana. nite. (pret. onitequauilan.) 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. 87v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.