to get out of the woods; to clear an ambuscade (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quauhyouacatla quiza, quauhyohuacatla quiza
Alonso de Molina:
quauhyouacatla quiza. ni. (quauhyouacatla oniquiz.) desemboscarse. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 86v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.