to take something from someone else, deceiving that person, or through trickery (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
tlaxiccuilia. nite. (pret. onitetlaxiccuili.) tomar algo a otro, engañandolo con trampantojos. &c. 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.