Principal English Translation:
to give someone a beating
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 229.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
nic. rare construction; Class 3: ōnicpālosdahuih. Sp. dar de palos, -huia. 229