trepan
IPA: trˈɛpʌn
noun
- A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
- (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.
- (archaic) A trickster.
- (archaic) A snare; a trapan.
verb
- (transitive, manufacturing, mining) 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.
- (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.
- (archaic) To ensnare; to seduce, to trick.
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