trepanとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trepan, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trephine.

名詞

trepan (複数形 trepans)

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

動詞

trepan (三人称単数 現在形 trepans, 現在分詞 trepanning または trepaning, 過去形および過去分詞形 trepanned または trepaned)

1. (transitive, manufacturing, mining) To create a large hole by making a narrow groove outlining the shape of the hole and then removing the plug of material remaining by less expensive means.
2. (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.

語源 2

Possibly from 古期英語 treppan (“to trap”).

名詞

trepan (複数形 trepans)

1. (archaic) A trickster.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 17, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan.

2. (archaic) A snare; a trapan.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:

     Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way.

動詞

trepan (三人称単数 現在形 trepans, 現在分詞 trepanning, 過去形および過去分詞形 trepanned)

1. (archaic) To ensnare; to seduce, to trick.
   • 1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XVII, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume II, London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], and J. Edwards, […], OCLC 13966308, page 28:

     Among his men I recollected one Cordus, a gentleman's ſon from Hamburgh, in which character I had known him, and who had been trepanned into the Weſt India Company's ſervice by the crimps or ſilver-coopers as a common ſoldier.

   • 1798 Charlotte Turner Smith: The Young Philosopher. Vol.4, Chapter 9.

     […] a post-chaise, into which he had so infamously trepanned me […]

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

     “In the plain meaning of the word, sir,” said I. “I was on my way to your house, when I was trepanned on board the brig, cruelly struck down, thrown below, and knew no more of anything till we were far at sea. I was destined for the plantations; a fate that, in God’s providence, I have escaped.”