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a captor, one who captures people for sacrifice (see Sahagún); also seen in the late colonial period being used to refer to hunters (plural: tlamanime)
"When a youth took a captive without any assistance, he became a leading youth (telpochyahqui) and a captor (tlamani), and was taken before the king." (sixteenth century, central Mexico)