the act of branding [someone or something] with a hot branding iron (see Molina; translation to English here by Stephanie Wood)
Orthographic Variants:
tlatepuztlemachiotiliztli
Alonso de Molina:
tlatepuztlemachiotiliztli. el acto de herrar assi. 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.