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tra⋅pan

  [truh-pan]
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–noun, verb (used with object), -panned, -pan⋅ning.
trepan 2 .

tre⋅pan

2  [tri-pan] noun, verb, -panned, -pan⋅ning. Archaic.
–noun
1. a person who ensnares or entraps others.
2. a stratagem; a trap.
–verb (used with object)
3. to ensnare or entrap.
4. to entice.
5. to cheat or swindle.
Also, trapan.

Origin:
1635–45; earlier trapan, equiv. to trap 1 + -an < ?

Related forms:
trep⋅a⋅na⋅tion  [trep-uh-ney-shuhn] , noun
tre⋅pan⋅ner, noun
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tre·pan 2   (trĭ-pān')   
tr.v.   tre·panned also tra·panned, tre·pan·ning also tra·pan·ning, tre·pans also tra·pans
To trap; ensnare.
n.  

  1. A trickster.

  2. A trick or snare.


[Origin unknown.]
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Word Origin & History

trepan  (v.)
c.1400, from Fr. trépaner (14c.), from M.L. trepanum "a saw for cutting out small pieces of bone from the skull," from Gk. trypanon, from trypan "to bore," related to trype "hole" (cf. O.C.S. truplu "hollow"), from PIE base *tere- "to rub, turn."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

trepan tre·pan (trĭ-pān')
n.
A trephine. v. tre·panned, tre·pan·ning, tre·pans
To trephine.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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