- a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- anything serving to entrap or entangle unawares; trap.
- a wire noose for removing tumors or the like by the roots or at the base.
- to catch with a snare; entangle.
- to catch or involve by trickery or wile: to snare her into going.
- one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
- a device for trapping birds or small animals, esp a flexible loop that is drawn tight around the prey
- 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
- anything that traps or entangles someone or something unawares
- to catch (birds or small animals) with a snare
- to catch or trap in or as if in a snare; capture by trickery
- 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
