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tepozzo.

Headword: 
tepozzo.
Principal English Translation: 

someone or something covered with metal; can refer to a person in chains, a man in armor, etc.

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 234.

Orthographic Variants: 
tepozço, tepuzço, tepuzzo
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

tepoztli, -yoh. 234

themes: 
Metals, Mining