a trimmer, sythe, or sickle (see Molina); a metal tool for cutting
Orthographic Variants:
tepuzmatlateconi
Alonso de Molina:
tepuzmatlateconi. podadera, podon, o hoz. 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.