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

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

Then comes the larger trepan, with a width of 4.80 mètres, and repeats the process on a larger scale.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various

Hilarion: And weasels at their slumbers They trepan Cyril & Florian: They trepan; Hilarion: To get sunbeams from cucumbers They've a plan Cyril & Florian: They've a plan.

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir