trepan

English

Etymology 1

From French trephine.

Noun

trepan (plural trepans)

1. A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
2. (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.

Translations

tool to bore

• French: trépan (fr) m

trephine — see trephine

Verb

trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning or trepaning, simple past and past participle trepanned or trepaned)

1. (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.
2. (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.

Translations

mining: create hole

• Spanish: trepanar (es)

medicine: use a trepan

Etymology 2

Possibly from Old English treppan (“to trap”).

Noun

trepan (plural trepans)

1. (archaic) A trickster.

Translations

trickster

Verb

trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepaning, simple past and past participle trepaned)

1. (archaic) To trick; to ensnare; to seduce.

Translations

trick

• Dutch: foppen (nl), beetnemen (nl)

Anagrams

• enrapt, entrap, panter, parent

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Spanish

Verb

trepan (infinitive trepar)

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of trepar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of trepar.