Definition of "trepans" []

• Plural form of trepan. (noun)

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• "We see renewed, in another form, the feats of prowess of the Anthrax, whose pupa, armed with trepans, bores through rock on the feeble Fly's behalf."
• "But now has this little embryo strength enough to thrust itself into the world? to hold up its head, and to maintain its course to a perfect maturity, against all the assaults and batteries of intemperance; all the snares and trepans that common life lays in its way to extinguish and suppress it?"
• "For can there be any thing of friendship in snares, hooks, and trepans?"