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Trepan
//tɹɪˈpæn// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
- 2 Alternative spelling of trapan (“act of entrapping or tricking; thing which entraps or tricks; (archaic or obsolete) person (or occasionally an animal) that traps or tricks another into doing something that benefits them but harms the victim”) alt-of, alternative
"As for all other Pretences, they are nothing but Death and Damnation, dreſſed up in Fair VVords and Falſe Shevvs; nothing but Ginns, and Snares, and Trepans for Souls; Contrived by the Devil, and Managed by ſuch as the Devil ſets on VVork."
- 3 a drill for cutting circular holes around a center wordnet
- 4 A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.
- 5 a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull wordnet
Verb
- 1 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. transitive
- 2 Alternative spelling of trapan (“to catch or entrap (a person or animal) in a snare or trap; (figurative) to trap or trick (someone), especially by using some stratagem, into doing something that benefits the perpetrator but harms the victim”) alt-of, alternative
"And haſt thou trepan'd me into a Tabernacle of the Godly? Is this Pious Boarding-houſe a place for me, thou vvicked Varlet?"
- 3 cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery wordnet
- 4 To use a trepan; to trephine.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.
Etymology 2
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.
Etymology 3
See trapan.
Etymology 4
See trapan.
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