to drive carts; or to raise something with a pulley (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quauhtemalacauia, quauhtemalacahuia
Alonso de Molina:
quauhtemalacauia. nitla. (pret. onitlaquauhtemalacaui.) carretear, o subir algo compolea o garrucha. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 87r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.