Definitions | trepan |
| noun
- 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.
- (archaic) A trickster.
verb (trepans, trepaning, trepaned) (transitive)
- To bore a shaft using a trepan.
- (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.
- (archaic) To trick.
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