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

Trepanning, an operation in surgery whereby portions of the skull are removed by means of an instrument called a trepan, which consists of a small cylindrical saw; resorted to in all operations on the brain.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

With his philibeg an’ tartan plaid, An’ gude claymore down by his side, The ladies’ hearts he did trepan, My gallant braw John Highlandman.

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

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