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

But, though Pell pronounced that he must die without recovering consciousness, and that the trepan would kill him instantaneously, I had a profound misgiving that he might recover speech and recollection.

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

Fowling has given us cajole, decoy, and trepan.

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

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