one who climbs up on top of houses or scales fortresses (see Molina)
IPAspelling:
tepɑːntɬehkok
Alonso de Molina:
tepantlecoc. escalador tal. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 102r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.