Word Finder - snare

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

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A mental or psychological trap.

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

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A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.

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A set of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin of a drum to create a rattling sound.

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A snare drum.

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To catch or hold, especially with a loop.

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To ensnare.

The tarantula, like all its allies, spins no web as a snare but catches its prey by activity and speed of foot.

Perhaps the most rudimentary form of snare arose from the spinning of threads round the mouth of the tube to hold it in place.

The hunter is taken in his own snare, as the great psalmist says.

Spiders which spin no snare are dependent for capturing prey for the most part upon their quickness or powers of lying concealed.

The cage, laced with peanuts, was intended to snare any badger tempted by the easy meal.

The " Otranto " asked if she was to keep out of range, and not getting a clear reply drew out of line on the " Glasgow's " starboard quarter, a potent reminder that a ship that has no guns to fight and no speed to run away is a delusion and a snare.

Estates snare foxes to protect grouse and they reason, that by doing so, they also protect capercaillie.

BeatLab's Training mode has a multitude of patterns that will help you practice your snare drum rudiments.

In Scotland, it is also an offense to sell a self-locking snare, or to possess one without reasonable excuse.

We must be vigilant if we would escape the Fowler's snare.

Kiemo has found this to be simply the best snare strainer on the market today.

In constructing, therefore, a snare of radiating and concentric lines, it seems that a spider economizes both time and silk and in addition renders the web as strong and as serviceable and yet as delicate and invisible as possible.

Again some species of Dictyna, belonging to the Amaurobiidae, also have a tubular retreat opening on to the surface of a snare in which a crude attempt at a radial and concentric arrangement of the threads is perceptible.

But he was also conscious that his exquisite devotion to mere lucidity and beauty might be a snare to him, and a happy instinct was always tlriving him to a study of mankind as well as of inanimate nature.

The word plagium is used in the Digest of the offence of kidnapping or abduction, and the ultimate source is probably to be found in plaga, net, snare, trap, cognate with Gr.

BeatLab 's Training mode has a multitude of patterns that will help you practice your snare drum rudiments.

Available in either cherry or walnut woods, the Deep Forest Series offers unique snare sounds.

Yamaha coated batter head, and Yamaha clear hazy snare side head fitted as standard.

We must be vigilant if we would escape the fowler 's snare.

My soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowler.

How long have you been in the snare of the devil?

You can instantly layer a tambourine sound onto a snare or tom or hand drum.

Creates good quality sound from it 's bass drum, symbols, snare and tom-tom drums.

Includes a snare drum stand, 10 " cymbal and cymbal arm, drum sticks, junior bass drum pedal and hi hat stand.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

I also have a brass piccolo snare drum, and a Chad Smith signature snare, both made by Pearl.

Heavy duty pincers or pliers are suitable for cutting snare wire.

Hardware also includes hi hat and snare stands, and a foot pedal.

There are places in that piece where I get these four snare drums to keep rolling over each other like waves of the sea.

Along one line there was a gradual elaboration of the tube until it culminated, so far as structural complexity is concerned, in the so-called trapdoor nests or burrows of various families; along the other line the tubular retreat either retains its primitive simplicity in association with a new structure, the snare or net, or is entirely superseded by the latter.

Passing back from the centre of the web to the underside of an adjoining leaf or some other sheltered spot runs a single thread, the trap line affording passage to the spider to and from the sheltered spot and the snare itself.

This drum is one of the most sensitive snare drums that Pearl offers.

To free the poor vixen to get it to the vets the people had to cut the snare from the man's land.

It sounds so true-to-life to me, like the snare sounds really whacky.

The lord-lieutenant twice tried to have Shane murdered; once he proposed to break his safe-conduct; and he held out hopes of his sister's hand as a snare.

As on the former occasion, the unfortunate Mamelukes fell into the snare.

The subject is not important, but the depth of your feelings and the conviction in your voice may be just the thing you need to snare him!

To the web is attached a trap-line which when drawn taut holds the snare stretched and tight, and when relaxed loosens the whole structure so that the threads fall together.

Be that as it may, the snare in many instances, as in that of the Agalenidae (Tegenaria, Agalena), a family closely allied to the Lycosidae, is a horizontal sheet of webbing, upon which the spider runs, continuous with the lower half of the aperture of the tube, of which it is simply an extension.