trephine

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We are going to bore a hole in the Yule log with an old trephine, and ram it chuck-full of gunpowder; and Jack's little brother is to catch six or seven frogs, under pain of a severe licking, which are to be put into one of the vegetable dishes.

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  1. noun A surgical instrument having circular, sawlike edges, used to cut out disks of bone, usually from the skull.
  2. transitive verb To operate on with a trephine.

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  1. French tréphine, from obsolete English trefine, from Latin trēs fīnēs, three ends : trēs, three; see trei- in Indo-European roots + fīnēs, pl. of fīnis, end.

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  1. from French tréphine; apparently intended for *trépine, an arbitrary diminutive of trépan, trepan: see trepan.
  2. from trephine, n.
 

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