one who makes metal mesh, metal netting for use as armor; one who makes coats of mail (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
tepuzmatlachiuhqui
Alonso de Molina:
tepuzmatlachiuhqui. el que haze malla para cotas. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 104r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.