to take off coats of mail, to take off metal mesh used as armor (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
tepuzmatlaxitinia
Alonso de Molina:
tepuzmatlaxitinia. ni. (pret. onitepuzmatlaxitini.) desmallar malla. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 104r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.