something divided, cut into pieces, or quartered (see Molina; English translation here by Stephanie Wood)
Alonso de Molina:
tlaxexelolli. cosa diuidida desta manera, despedazada o desquartizada. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 145v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.