the tax collector; the person who collects tributes (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
puchteca tequitini
Alonso de Molina:
puchteca tequitini. alcaualero. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 83v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.