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

Who'd have thought the needy profligate would have hesitated to plunge his trepan into the brain of a dying man—a corpse, you may say, already—for five hundred guineas?

From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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

For Janet chose a cruel part,— How many win a tender heart And then trepan it!

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane