Trepan

Quick meaning: Trepan is a noun meaning A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.

Meaning

A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.

More Meanings

1. (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.
2. (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.
3. (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.
4. 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”)
5. 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”)

Example Sentences

O fie! Sir Peter,—vvhat, join in a plot to trepan my brother!

[H]e hoped he did not intend to make uſe of him to trepan a man to his ruin.

And haſt thou trepan'd me into a Tabernacle of the Godly? Is this Pious Boarding-houſe a place for me, thou vvicked Varlet?

No, Sir, I vvill not be alone vvith you; you have infamouſly trepanned me from my friends, and I inſiſt upon being carried back to my mother, or rather left here, for vvith you I vvill not travel.

Word Forms

• trepans
• trepanning
• trepanned

Synonyms for trepan

Depending on context, synonyms include trephine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trephine, trepanner, socket, auger, drillhole, gimlet.

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