to lighten a ship's load in the storm (see Molina, who gives the example in the first person singular, present tense)
Orthographic Variants:
atlan nontlatoxaua
Alonso de Molina:
atlan nontlatoxaua. (pret. atlan onitlatoxauh.) alijar nauio con tormenta. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.