Snare
noun
1.
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
2.
anything serving to entrap or entangle unawares; trap.
3.
Surgery. a wire noose for removing tumors or the like by the roots or at the base.
verb (used with object), snared, snaring.
4.
to catch with a snare; entangle.
5.
to catch or involve by trickery or wile:
to snare her into going.
noun
1.
one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
noun
1.
a device for trapping birds or small animals, esp a flexible loop that is drawn tight around the prey
2.
a surgical instrument for removing certain tumours, consisting of a wire loop that may be drawn tight around their base to sever or uproot them
3.
anything that traps or entangles someone or something unawares
verb (transitive)
4.
to catch (birds or small animals) with a snare
5.
to catch or trap in or as if in a snare; capture by trickery
noun
1.
(music) a set of gut strings wound with wire fitted against the lower drumhead of a snare drum. They produce a rattling sound when the drum is beaten See snare drum
snare (snâr)
n.
A surgical instrument with a wire loop controlled by a mechanism in the handle, used to remove growths, such as tumors and polyps.
The expression (Amos 3:5), “Shall one take up a snare from the earth?” etc. (Authorized Version), ought to be, as in the Revised Version, “Shall a snare spring up from the ground?” etc. (See GIN.)
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