Principal English Translation:
a prison steward, or the guardian of a large wooden cage (see Molina)
Attestations from sources in English:
quauhcalpixque = plural form
quihtoque yn quauhcalpixque = The prison stewards spoke
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 52–53.