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  • noun Plural form of trepanner.

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  • Hence the greater the absurdity of those documents, the greater their historical importance, as showing, not only how the Royalists were duped, and how Cromwell duped his subjects, but also that the tricks of his trepanners were so clumsy that, almost without exception 'no

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

  • Meantime, through these outside ministers -- though unaffected by their follies or errors as trepanners -- the Oracle of Delphi drew that vast and comprehensive information, from every local nook or recess of

    Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Meantime, through these outside ministers -- though unaffected by their follies or errors as trepanners -- the Oracle of Delphi drew that vast and comprehensive information, from every local nook or recess of

    Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • As a result, trepanners say, you’ll be happier, more energetic and less prone to … Giving the trepanners momentary benefit of the doubt, Kaufman says, …

    Think Progress » Bush approval drops. 2006

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