something snatched or stolen away, by the person who grabs something and runs off (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
tlatlalochtilli. cosa arrebatada, del que arrebata algo y da ahuir. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 138r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.