snare🔊

A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).

A mental or psychological trap.

(veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.

(surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.

(music) A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.

(music) A snare drum.

To catch or hold, especially with a loop.

(figurative) To ensnare.

(uncommon) To play (a snare drum, or a beat on or as if on a snare drum).