snare

snare
snare1
snareless, adj.snarer, n.snaringly, adv.
/snair/, n., v., snared, snaring.
n.
1. a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
2. anything serving to entrap or entangle unawares; trap.
3. Surg. a wire noose for removing tumors or the like by the roots or at the base.
v.t.
4. to catch with a snare; entangle.
5. to catch or involve by trickery or wile: to snare her into going.
[bef. 1100; ME (n. and v.); c. ON snara, MLG snare, OHG snar(a)ha]
Syn. 1. See trap1. 2. net, seine.
snare2
/snair/, n.
one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
[1680-90; < MLG snare or MD snaer string; r. OE sner string of a musical instrument]

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