one who brands [e.g., a person or an animal] with a hot branding iron (see Molina; translation here to English by Stephanie Wood)
Orthographic Variants:
tlatepuztlemachiotiani
Alonso de Molina:
tlatepuztlemachiotiani. el que hierra con hierro ardiendo. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 135v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.