Complete Definition of "trepan"

English

Noun
en-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.
  3. archaic A trickster.

Verb
en-verb|trepans|trepaning|trepaned transitive

  1. To bore a shaft using a trepan.
  2. medicine To use a trepan; to trephine.
  3. archaic To trick.

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