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trepan
noun
verb
A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
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/tɹɪˈpæn/ /tɹɪˈpæn/
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noun
A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.
verb
To create a large hole by making a narrow groove outlining the shape of the hole and then removing the plug of material remaining by less expensive means.
To use a trepan; to trephine.
noun
A trickster.
A snare; a trapan.
verb
To ensnare; to seduce, to trick.
“1798 Charlotte Turner Smith: The Young Philosopher. Vol.4, Chapter 9. ...a postchaise, into which he had so infamously trepanned me...”
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1798 Charlotte Turner Smith: The Young Philosopher. Vol.4, Chapter 9. ...a postchaise, into which he had so infamously trepanned me...