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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1666-1689
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Trappan, Trep(p)an, v. [17th c. Eng. trepan, trappan (both 1656), trapan (a1661).] To entrap, beguile; to trick, cheat.(a) 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 293.
Edinburgh is now in a muse, heareing of Montrosse his great success, … especially that their General Baily was so trappand and baffled be him [etc.](b) 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 368.
Being trepand by one Bernard 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 424.
She payd stipend to ten ministers, and gloried in this that she treppand some of them; for shee [etc.] … and the honest minister cheated 1684 Lauder Notices Affairs II 496.
By drinking with poor men, and other arts, they trepaned many 1686 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XII 208.
Four Dutchmen prisoners in the Tolbuith … supplicating that … they were trepaned and browght alongest with the late Earle of Argyle 1689 Melville Corr. 110.
I may be suspected to write from designe toe trepan ore wheedle
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