stratagem vs trephine

stratagem

noun
  • Cunning and artifice in general. 

  • Military deception or artifice. 

  • A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception. 

  • Specifically, such a tactic or artifice in military operation. 

trephine

noun
  • A surgical instrument with a cylindrical blade used to remove a circular section of tissue, f.e. bone or cornea; a trepan. 

verb
  • To use a trephine during surgery. 

  • To perforate with a trephine. 

How often have the words stratagem and trephine occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )