Trepan

Trepan - Other Definitions

• (n.) A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
  
  
• (n.) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
  
  
• (v. t. & i.) To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.
  
  
• (n.) A snare; a trapan.
  
  
• (n.) a deceiver; a cheat.
  
  
• (v. t.) To insnare; to trap; to trapan.