trepan
Example Sentences
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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
And weasels at their slumbers They'll trepan; To get sunbeams from cuCUMbers They've a plan.
From Songs of a Savoyard by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
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
"But what a thoughtless animal is man,— How very active in his own trepan!"
From The Human Side of Animals by Dixon, Royal
