trepan

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
2. isim A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.
3. fiil To create a large hole by making a narrow groove outlining the shape of the hole and then removing the plug of material remaining by less expensive means.
4. fiil To use a trepan; to trephine.
5. isim Alternative spelling of trapan (“act of entrapping or tricking; thing which entraps or tricks; (archaic or obsolete) person (or occasionally an animal) that traps or tricks another into doing something that benefits them but harms the victim”)

   “As for all other Pretences, they are nothing but Death and Damnation, dreſſed up in Fair VVords and Falſe Shevvs; nothing but Ginns, and Snares, and Trepans for Souls; Contrived by the Devil, and Managed by ſuch as the Devil ſets on VVork.”

6. fiil Alternative spelling of trapan (“to catch or entrap (a person or animal) in a snare or trap; (figurative) to trap or trick (someone), especially by using some stratagem, into doing something that benefits the perpetrator but harms the victim”)

   “And haſt thou trepan'd me into a Tabernacle of the Godly? Is this Pious Boarding-houſe a place for me, thou vvicked Varlet?”