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Definition of Trepans
1. trepan [v] - See also: trepan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trepans
Literary usage of Trepans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sanitary Engineering with Respect to Water-supply and Sewage Disposal by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1907)
"... large trepans used for shafts to mines ; Dru System of ... trepans, objects ;
release by shock, mechanical disengagement for large ..."
2. Sanitary Engineering with Respect to Water-supply and Sewage Disposal by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1907)
"... used for shafts to mines ; Dru System of Free-falling trepans, objects ;
release by shock, mechanical disengagement for large ..."
3. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"2, safety-hook for lifting the trepans and their connecting-rods in case of
rupture of these last. No. 3, grappling-hook for extracting blocks of rock, ..."
4. Shaft-sinking Under Difficult Conditions by J. Riemer (1907)
"Power for operating the trepans is furnished by the steam- cylinder I, the simple
valve-motion of which is controlled by hand. This engine actuates the ..."
5. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Park Benjamin, D. Appleton and Company (1880)
"In trepans at first constructed by M. Kind the upper portion of the central stern
was threaded to receive a screw which united to the slide ; but this ..."
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