The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TREPAN
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More clues leading to the result TREPAN
- Old head saw parent after work
- Traveller wearing brown drill
- Showing cheek put back with a new cut through bone
- Parent exchanged boring tool
- Boring article about Congressman Brown
- Bone-cutting saw in theatre with leather covering
- Head saw, in old medicine centre, Pandora’s box
- Cut through centre panel in part
- Saw agent wearing brown
- Deviously entrap, make headway?
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What does TREPAN mean?
TREPAN noun- A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
- A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.
- 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.
- To use a trepan; to trephine.
- A trickster.
- A snare; a trapan.
- To ensnare; to seduce, to trick.