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

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

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

To-day a hell-dog is yesterday’s man,    And he has no plan,    But others to trepan    To Hell’s dismal revels.

From The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Borrow, George Henry