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Trepanned - What does it mean?

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trepanned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (trepan)

    • trepan

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) trepan, from (etyl) trepanum.

    Noun

    (en 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.

    • Verb

  • (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.
  • (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A trickster.
  • * Macaulay
    • He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan .
  • (archaic) A snare; a trapan.
  • * South
    • Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To trick; to ensnare; to seduce.

    • Anagrams

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    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.