meaning of trepan
1. A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
2. A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
3. To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.
4. A snare; a trapan.
5. a deceiver; a cheat.
6. To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
7. a drill for cutting circular holes around a center
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trepan | trepang | trepanize | trepanned | trepanner | trepanning |
