trepan
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English
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Etymology 1
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.
Noun
trepan (plural trepans)
- A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
- (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.
Translations
tool to bore
trephine — see trephine
See also
Coal cutting machine (trepanner) that undercuts the coal seam.
Verb
trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning or trepaning, simple past and past participle trepanned or trepaned)
- (transitive, manufacturing, mining) To create a large hole by making a narrow groove outlining the shape of the hole and then removing the plug of material remaining by less expensive means.
- (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.
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Etymology 2
Possibly from Old English treppan (“to trap”).
Noun
trepan (plural trepans)
- (archaic) A trickster.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 17, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan.
- (archaic) A snare; a trapan.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: J Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, , published 1727, →OCLC:
- Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way.
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Verb
trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning, simple past and past participle trepanned)
- (archaic) To ensnare; to seduce, to trick.
- 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii:
- O Fie—Sir Peter—would you have ME join in so mean a Trick? to trepan my Brother too?
- 1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XVII, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; , volume II, London: J Johnson, , and J. Edwards, , →OCLC, page 28:
- Among his men I recollected one Cordus, a gentleman's ſon from Hamburgh, in which character I had known him, and who had been trepanned into the Weſt India Company's ſervice by the crimps or ſilver-coopers as a common ſoldier.
- 1798 Charlotte Turner Smith: The Young Philosopher. Vol.4, Chapter 9.
- a post-chaise, into which he had so infamously trepanned me
- 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: , London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
- “In the plain meaning of the word, sir,” said I. “I was on my way to your house, when I was trepanned on board the brig, cruelly struck down, thrown below, and knew no more of anything till we were far at sea. I was destined for the plantations; a fate that, in God’s providence, I have escaped.”
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