trepan's Usage Examples:

To-day Labuan chiefly exists as a trading depot for the natives of the neighbouring coast of Borneo, who sell their produce - beeswax, edible birds-nests, camphor, gutta, trepang, 'c.

The large trepan or cutter weighs about 16 tons, and cuts a hole of from 9 to 15 ft.

Turtles, trepang and pearl-shell are of some commercial importance.

Among the products are coco-nuts, sago, fish, trepang, timber, copra, maize, yams and tobacco.

Whalers, sealers and traders followed in the wake of explorers, the traders dealing chiefly in copra, trepang, pearls, tortoiseshell, 'c.

The islands produce some coco-nuts, sago, trepang and timber.

The chief products for export are copra, tortoise-shell, mother-of-pearl, sharks' fins and trepang.

The sea yields trepang and pearl shells.

The yearly export (trepang, turtle and kamuning wood) is valued at only £850 to £1650.

Macassar's trade amounts to about 1,250,000 annually, and consists mainly of coffee, trepang, copra, gums, spices and valuable timber.

The only means of subsistence is primitive agriculture on a poor soil, turtle and trepang fishery and cattle-rearing.

Synonyms:

trephine, surgical instrument,

Antonyms:

interest,