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
With his philibeg an' tartan plaid, kilt And gude claymore down by his side, two-handed sword The ladies' hearts he did trepan, My gallant braw John Highlandman.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan
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
Ballad: The National Anthem A monarch is pestered with cares, Though, no doubt, he can often trepan them; But one comes in a shape he can never escape - The implacable National Anthem!
From Songs of a Savoyard by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
