to cover something with tree branches (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quauhxiuhyotia
Alonso de Molina:
quauhxiuhyotia. nitla. (pret. onitlaquauhxiuhyoti.) enramar algo. 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.