I think this writer meant to say 'trepan‚ because that's a drill, while a terrapin is an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-02] Reference

Relatively humane compared to the older method of using a hammer that would trepan the animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 20, 2006] Reference

My interest was purely academic as I examined the small wound that the trepan had left in his scalp.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

Then comes the larger trepan, with a width of 4.80 mètres, and repeats the process on a larger scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

And in trepanning you must frequently remove the trepan, on account of the heat in the bone, and plunge it in cold water.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Injuries Of The Head] Reference

And many of these require trepanning, but you must not apply the trepan to the sutures themselves, but on the adjoining bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Injuries Of The Head] Reference

Whoffrlalie dififenabling love our hearts trepan 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vocal Magazine: Or, Compleat British Songster] Reference

When it becomes necessary to trepan the frontal sinus, the internal table not being on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference

His friend answered, He hoped he did not intend to make use of him to trepan a man to his ruin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings] Reference

They seldom trepan; a surgeon who attempted to perform it, would himself be perhaps in want of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

But the point I refer to is this: the old instrument, the trepan, had a handle like a wimble, what we call a brace or bit-stock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference

Barnaby True was too full of his own thoughts to talk -- and serious enough thoughts they were by this time, with crimps to trepan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates] Reference

James Mhor Drummond was secretly applied to to trepan Stewart to the sea-coast, and bring him over to Britain, to almost certain death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy — Volume 01] Reference

He gave a list of those whom he had trepanned, and had failed to trepan, by his artifices and threats, into the sacrifice of their honour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference

“What!” said the bold Knight, “you think I am afraid of the trepan?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

"What!" said the bold Knight, "you think I am afraid of the trepan?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

To lure and trepan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

An old maid to trepan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

Our grazier to trepan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire] Reference

Your heart she will trepan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference

Your heart she will trepan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Song-Beware o’ Bonie Ann] Reference

That, to trepan the one to think.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hudibras] Reference

How very active in his own trepan!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference

A plot to trepan him into a snare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)] Reference

Coolness of Paget about to trepan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs] Reference

Some by the nose with fumes trepan 'em.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hudibras] Reference

Though the devil trepan The Adamical man,/.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical] Reference

Let not fuch poor rewards thy powers trepan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The miscellaneous poems of J. Cawdell, comedian: consisting of a variety of serious and comic prologues, epilogues, pastorals, songs, descriptions, and epigrams] Reference

Would moft villain-like, his brother trepan!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The miscellaneous works of Richard Linnecar, of Wakefield] Reference

Might then trepan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.)] Reference

—to trepan my brother too?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act Fourth. Scene III] Reference

They'll trepan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs] Reference

But others to trepan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell] Reference

"trepan him, trepan him.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Fire] Reference

How very active in his own trepan! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Side of Animals] Reference

"No! cup him," -- "No, trepan him, brother.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference