to make a metal netting or mesh for use as armor, to make coats of mail (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
tepuzmatlayeua, tepuzmatlayehua
Alonso de Molina:
tepuzmatlayeua. ni. (pret. onitepuzmatlayeuh.) hazer 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.