trepan

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

The surgical trepan is a different word altogether, and belongs to Greco-Lat. trypanon, an auger, piercer.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

To-day a hell-dog is yesterday’s man,    And he has no plan,    But others to trepan    To Hell’s dismal revels.

From The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Borrow, George Henry