Trepan

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A rock-boring tool used in mining for sinking shafts.
  • n. Medicine A trephine.
  • v. To bore (a shaft) with a trepan.
  • v. Medicine To trephine.
  • v. To trap; ensnare.
  • n. A trickster.
  • n. A trick or snare.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
  • n. A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.
  • v. 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.
  • v. To use a trepan; to trephine.
  • n. A trickster.
  • v. To trick; to ensnare; to seduce.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See trephine.
  • n. A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
  • v. 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.
  • n. A snare; a trapan.
  • n. a deceiver; a cheat.
  • v. To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An instrument for boring; a borer.
  • n. The name given by the French to a boring-tool used for sinking wells and mining shafts to great depths and sometimes of great dimensions.
  • n. An instrument, in the form of a crown-saw, used by surgeons for removing parts of the bones of the skull, in order to relieve the brain from pressure or irritation. The trephine is an improved form of this instrument. See cuts under crown-saw and trephine.
  • To perforate by a trepan, especially by the surgical trepan; operate on with a trepan.
  • See trapan.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery
  • n. a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull
  • n. a drill for cutting circular holes around a center
  • Verb Form
    trepanned    trepanning    trepans   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bore    drill    surgical instrument   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    trepanned    trepanning    trephine   
    Form
    trepanned    trepanning   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    snare    trapan    deceiver    cheat    insnare    trap