trepan

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Marshal Ney had a silver trepan in his skull, a bullet wound in his ankle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fearful things: bonesaws, abdomen retractor, trocar and trepan.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Young Love, who shews us His midsummer light, Spreads the same halo O'er Winter's dark night; And Fame never dazzles To lure and trepan; Oh! believe me, believe me, Believe if you can!

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

"But what a thoughtless animal is man,— How very active in his own trepan!"

From The Human Side of Animals by Dixon, Royal

And weasels at their slumbers They'll trepan; To get sunbeams from cuCUMbers They've a plan.

From Songs of a Savoyard by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir