21 December 2013
trepan (1)
[trih-pan]
noun
1. a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
2. Surgery . an obsolete form of the trephine resembling a carpenter’s bit and brace.
verb (used with object), tre·panned, tre·pan·ning.
3. Machinery . to cut circular disks from (plate stock) using a rotating cutter.
4. Surgery . to operate upon with a trepan; trephine.
Origin:
1350–1400; (noun) Middle English trepane < Middle French trepan crown saw < Medieval Latin trepanum < Greek trȳ́panon borer, akin to trŷpa hole, trȳpân to bore; (v) late Middle English trepanen, derivative of the noun
Related forms
trep·a·na·tion [trep-uh-ney-shuhn], noun
tre·pan·ner, noun
trepan (2)
[trih-pan], Archaic.
noun
1. a person who ensnares or entraps others.
2. a stratagem; a trap.
verb (used with object), tre·panned, tre·pan·ning.
3. to ensnare or entrap.
4. to entice.
5. to cheat or swindle.
Also, trapan.
Origin:
1635–45; earlier trapan, equivalent to trap1 + -an < ?
Related forms
trep·a·na·tion [trep-uh-ney-shuhn], noun
tre·pan·ner, noun
Anagram
entrap
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Today’s aphorism
You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
– John C. Maxwell
On this day
21 December 1913 – American newspaper, New York World, publishes the world’s first crossword puzzle. It was created by English journalist, Arthur Wynne.
21 December 1940 – birth of Frank Zappa, American revolutionary musician. Died 3 December 1993.
21 December 1991 – representatives of all Soviet Republics, except Georgia, signed the Alma-Ata Protocol which confirmed the Belavezha Accords of 8 December 1991 that declared the Soviet Union dissolved.
21 December 2012 – end of the world as predicted by the Ancient Mayans … or was it just the end of an age within their calendar? All was revealed … and it was a non-event …