Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who operates surgically with the trepan or trephine.
- noun See
trapanner .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who trepans.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
trepans - noun A
trepanning tool
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Examples
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France, where she may, with more comfort and propriety, as well as safety, abide the issue of the turmoils which the political trepanner, to whom she has united her fate, is doubtless busied in putting into motion. ''
Rob Roy 1887
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I will argue with her as a friend — as a kinsman — on the risk she is incurring, and I will facilitate her retreat to France, where she may, with more comfort and propriety, as well as safety, abide the issue of the turmoils which the political trepanner, to whom she has united her fate, is doubtless busied in putting into motion.”
Rob Roy 2005
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I will argue with her as a friend -- as a kinsman -- on the risk she is incurring, and I will facilitate her retreat to France, where she may, with more comfort and propriety, as well as safety, abide the issue of the turmoils which the political trepanner, to whom she has united her fate, is doubtless busied in putting into motion. "
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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I will argue with her as a friend -- as a kinsman -- on the risk she is incurring, and I will facilitate her retreat to France, where she may, with more comfort and propriety, as well as safety, abide the issue of the turmoils which the political trepanner, to whom she has united her fate, is doubtless busied in putting into motion. "
Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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