to mark boundaries or borders; can also imply a measuring of the land within given boundaries (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quaxochtia
Alonso de Molina:
quaxochtia. nite. (pret. onitequaxochti.) amojonar terminos, o lindes. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 88r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.