Trepan

From French trephine.

Full definition of trepan

Noun

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.

Verb

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.

Possibly from Old English treppan ("to trap").

Noun

1. (archaic) A trickster.
• MacaulayHe had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan.
2. (archaic) A snare; a trapan.
• SouthSnares and trepans that common life lays in its way.

Verb

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

Anagrams

• enrapt, entrap, panter, parent