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trepans

trepans is the plural of trepan.

Meaning of trepan

Noun

trepan (plural trepans)

  1. A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
  2. A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.

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Questions about trepans

What is trepans the plural of?
Trepans is the plural of trepan.

Words near trepans in the dictionary

  1. trepanners
  2. trepanning
  3. trepannings
  4. trepanomatosis
  5. trepanosomiasis
  6. trepans
  7. Trepassey
  8. trephinated
  9. trephination
  10. trephinations
  11. trephine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trepans (page history and authors); trepan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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