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trepan
1[ trih-pan ]
noun
- a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
- Surgery. an obsolete form of the trephine resembling a carpenter's bit and brace.
verb (used with object)
- Machinery. to cut circular disks from (plate stock) using a rotating cutter.
- Surgery. to operate upon with a trepan; trephine.
trepan
2[ trih-pan ]
noun
- a person who ensnares or entraps others.
- a stratagem; a trap.
verb (used with object)
- to ensnare or entrap.
- to entice.
- to cheat or swindle.
trepan
1/ ˌtrɛpəˈneɪʃən; trɪˈpæn /
noun
- See trephinesurgery an instrument resembling a carpenter's brace and bit formerly used to remove circular sections of bone (esp from the skull) Compare trephine
- a tool for cutting out circular blanks or for making grooves around a fixed centre
- the operation of cutting a hole with such a tool
- the hole so produced
trepan
2/ trəˈpæn; trɪˈpæn /
verb
- to entice, ensnare, or entrap
- to swindle or cheat
noun
- a person or thing that traps
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Derived Forms
- trepanation, noun
- treˈpanner, noun
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Other Words From
- trep·a·na·tion [trep-, uh, -, ney, -sh, uh, n], noun
- tre·panner noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of trepan1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of trepan1
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Example Sentences
The learned doctors held a consultation, and resolved to trepan the skull and extract the worm.
Figs. 141 to 146 are of the connections to the trepan and spears or rods.
If our Vulcans now-a-days were to trepan the heads of our Jupiters, they would find nothing in them!
The sheep necessarily dies at last, unless we remove the parasite by means of the trepan.
The surgical trepan is a different word altogether, and belongs to Greco-Lat.
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