trepan
See also: trépan
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.
Noun
trepan (plural trepans)
- 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.
Translations
tool to bore
trephine — see trephine
Verb
trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning or trepaning, simple past and past participle trepanned or trepaned)
- (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.
Translations
mining: create hole
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medicine: use a trepan
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Etymology 2
Possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English treppan (“to trap”).
Noun
trepan (plural trepans)
- (archaic) A trickster.
- Macaulay
- He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan.
- Macaulay
- (archaic) A snare; a trapan.
- South
- Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way.
- South
Translations
trickster
Verb
trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepaning, simple past and past participle trepaned)
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Spanish
Verb
trepan
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