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trephine (n.)
an improved kind of trepan, 1620s, from French
trephine
, which is said to be from Latin
tres fines
"three ends," but perhaps rather an arbitrary diminutive of
trepan
. As a verb from 1804. Related:
Trephining
;
trephination
.
