a veranda, a wooden porch, a parapet, a fence, or a stockade (see Molina); of course, this can also represent the plural
Orthographic Variants:
quauhchinamitl
Alonso de Molina:
quauhchinamitl. varandas, o antepecho de madera, o palenque, talanquera o estacada. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 86v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.