The corpus record — Pali

Abhimatthati

(˚eti) & -mantheti to cleave, cut; to crush, destroy MN.i.243 (sikharena muddhānaṃ ˚mantheti); SN.i.127 ; Dhp.161 (variant reading ˚nth˚); Ja.iv.457 (matthako sikharena ˚matthiyamāno) Dhp-a.iii.152 (= kantati viddhaṃseti). to rub, to produce by friction (esp. fire, aggiṃ; cp. Vedic agniṃ nirmanthati

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Where it lives

Dhammapada 1 · 1.9/10k

What it meant — PTS Pali–English Dictionary

(˚eti) & -mantheti

to cleave, cut; to crush, destroy MN.i.243 (sikharena muddhānaṃ ˚mantheti); SN.i.127; Dhp.161 (variant reading ˚nth˚); Ja.iv.457 (matthako sikharena ˚matthiyamāno) Dhp-a.iii.152 (= kantati viddhaṃseti).
to rub, to produce by friction (esp. fire, aggiṃ; cp. Vedic agniṃ nirmanthati) MN.i.240.

abhi + math or manth, cp. nimmatheti

In the wild

Abhimatthati Dhammapada 161 (dhp161:3)

Pali text and translations from SuttaCentral (Bilara), dedicated to the public domain (CC0). PTS Pali–English Dictionary entries, public domain.