to enclose the agricultural area with walls or fences (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
tepan chinantia. nino. (pret. oninotepan chinanti.) cercar de paredes la huerta. &c. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 102r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.