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

I. Ye gallants bright, I red ye right, Beware o’ bonnie Ann; Her comely face sae fu’ o’ grace, Your heart she will trepan.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

His friend answered, He hoped he did not intend to make use of him to trepan a man to his ruin.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings by Swift, Jonathan

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