trepan

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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

They seldom trepan; a surgeon who attempted to perform it, would himself be perhaps in want of it.

From A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 by Thicknesse, Philip

In later editions its spelling was influenced by the word trepan, a surgical operation.

From The Coverley Papers by Various

I. Ye gallants bright, I red ye right, Beware o’ bonnie Ann; Her comely face sae fu’ o’ grace, Your heart she will trepan.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert