trepan
Meaning of trepan
noun
- A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
- A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.
- 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.
- To use a trepan; to trephine.
- A trickster.
- A snare; a trapan.
- To ensnare; to seduce, to trick.
1798 Charlotte Turner Smith: The Young Philosopher. Vol.4, Chapter 9. ...a postchaise, into which he had so infamously trepanned me...
Information about trepan
- The plural form of trepan is: trepans.
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CatalanHyphenation of trepan
trepan
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- trepan is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
trepan synonyms
Meaning trephine:
Anagrams of trepan
arpent, enrapt, entrap, Panter, panter, Parent, parent, parten, pretan, pterna
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