Trepan
English Meaning
A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
- A rock-boring tool used in mining for sinking shafts.
- Medicine A trephine.
- To bore (a shaft) with a trepan.
- Medicine To trephine.
- To trap; ensnare.
- A trickster.
- A trick or snare.