trepan

Definitions

1. 1.(Mining) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
2. 2.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.
3. 3.A snare; a trapan. Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way. South.
4. 4.a deceiver; a cheat. He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan. Macaulay.
5. 5.To insnare; to trap; to trapan. Guards even of a dozen men were silently trepanned from their stations. De Quincey.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is a kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts called?
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• What is a snare; a trapan. Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way. South called?
• What is a deceiver; a cheat. He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan. Macaulay called?
• What is to insnare; to trap; to trapan. Guards even of a dozen men were silently trepanned from their stations. De Quincey called?