trepan

• IPA^(key): /tɹɪˈpæn/
• Rhymes: -æn
• Hyphenation: tre‧pan

Borrowed from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.

trepan (plural trepans)

1. A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
2. (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.

trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepanning or trepaning, simple past and past participle trepanned or trepaned)

1. (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.
2. (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.

Possibly from Old English treppan (“to trap”).

trepan (plural trepans)

1. (archaic) A trickster.
   • Macaulay

     He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan.

2. (archaic) A snare; a trapan.
   • South

     Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way.

trepan (third-person singular simple present trepans, present participle trepaning, simple past and past participle trepaned)

1. (archaic) To trick; to ensnare; to seduce.

• -pteran, Parten, arpent, enrapt, entrap, panter, parent

trepan

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of trepar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of trepar.