to lever, to lever up, to lever open, to jack up (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quammiuia, quammihuia
Alonso de Molina:
quammiuia. nitla. (pret. onitlaquammiui.) apalancar. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 85r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.