Snare definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary SNARE, n. 1. An instrument for catching animals, particularly fowls, by ... with slip-knots, in which the leg is entangled. A snare is not a net. 2. Any thing by which one ... troble. I Cor. 7. A fool's lip are the snare of his soul. Proverbs 18. SNARE, v.t. To catch with a snare; to ensnare; to entangle; to bring into unexpected evil, ...
snare drum definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head [syn: snare drum, snare, side drum] Merriam Webster's noun Date: circa 1859 a ... its lower head — see drum illustration Webster's 1913 Dictionary Snare Snare, n. [AS. sneara cord, a string; akin to D. ...
... foxes. A trap is a very different thing from a snare; though the latter word may be used in a figurative ... may be caught unawares. Let their table be made a snare and a trap. Romans 11. 4. A play in which ... exam was full of trap questions"; "it was all a snare and delusion" [syn: trap, snare] 4: a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air ... in a trap; "The men trap foxes" [syn: trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, trammel] 3: hold or catch as if in a ... plural a group of percussion instruments (as a bass drum, snare drums, and cymbals) used especially in a dance or ...
trap snare or gin definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary (a) To put ... all my counsel.'' --Prov. i. 25. To set a trap, snare, or gin, to put it in a proper condition or ...
... a pump moved by rotary sails. 1. A trap; a snare. GIN, v.t. To clear cotton of its seeds by ... birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose [syn: snare, gin, noose] 3: a machine that separates the seeds from ... from (cotton) with a cotton gin 2: trap with a snare; "gin game" Merriam Webster's I. verb (gan; ginning) Etymology ... any of various tools or mechanical devices: as a. a snare or trap for game b. cotton gin III. transitive verb (ginned; ginning) Date: 1606 1. snare 2. to separate (cotton fiber) from seeds and waste material ... Etymology: abbr. of GENEVA 2. n. & v. --n. 1 a snare or trap. 2 a machine for separating cotton from ...
... used for such contrivances, represented respectively by "net," "toils," "gin," "snare," "noose," "trap "; and Am 3:5, which is important enough ... be cited in full: "Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is set for him? shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?" The word for "snare" in this passage (pach) probably describes a net laid on ... gin," usually ira in the Revised Version (British and American) "snare" (moqesh, literally, "fowling instrument") is supposed to refer either to ... if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee" (compare Ex 34:12; De 7:16; ...
... hold of a bough. 3. To seize, as in a snare or trap; to ensnare; to entangle. They sent certain of ... to take or entangle in or as if in a snare < catch fish in a net > c. deceive d. to discover ... over < the engine caught > • catchable adjective Synonyms: catch, capture, trap, snare, entrap, ensnare, bag mean to come to possess or control ... by overcoming resistance or difficulty < capture an enemy stronghold >. trap, snare, entrap, ensnare imply seizing by some device that holds the ... one caught at the mercy of the captor. trap and snare apply more commonly to physical seizing < trap animals > < snared butterflies ... Judg. i. 6. 3. To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch ...
... 2005) v 1: take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was ... in a trap; "The men trap foxes" [syn: trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, trammel] Merriam Webster's transitive verb Date: 1576 to take in or as if in a snare Synonyms: see catch Oxford Reference Dictionary v.tr. catch in or as in a snare; entrap. Derivatives: ensnarement n. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Ensnare En*snare", v. t. To catch in a snare. See Insnare. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (ensnares, ensnaring, ensnared) ...
... hook; a chimney-hook; a pot-hook, etc. 2. A snare; a trap. 3. A curving instrument for cutting grass or ... The car salesman had snared three potential customers" [syn: hook, snare] 12: approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was ... with the elbow bent and rigid. 5 a trap, a snare. 6 a a curved stroke in handwriting, esp. as made ... 4. (Steam Engin.) See Eccentric, and V-hook. 5. A snare; a trap. [R.] --Shak. 6. A field sown two years ... n. 1. Catch, clasp, hasp, bent holder, curved catch. 2. Snare, trap. 3. Sickle, reaping-hook, reaper, cutter, grasshook. II. v ... fasten with a hook, take with a hook. 2. Catch, snare, ensnare, entrap. 3. Bend, curve, make into a hook, ...
... Ps 91:3: "For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler. And from the deadly pestilence." This is ... in its struggles slips the hair and escapes from the "snare" (which see) set for it. Ps 124:7: "Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped." Here is the fulfillment ... the former promise in a cry of rejoicing. Sometimes the snare held fast, sometimes it broke; then the joy in the ... with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, and enmity in the ...
... or to involve, entangle, and thus to be allied to snare.] 1. To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to ... Middle English, to trap, entangle, probably frequentative of snaren to snare Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to cause to become ... become snarled • snarler noun II. noun Etymology: Middle English snarle snare, noose, probably from snarlen, verb Date: 1609 1. a tangle ... a traffic jam; a muddle; a mistake. Etymology: ME f. snare (n. & v.): sense 3 perh. f. noun in dial. sense ... surface. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Snarl Snarl, v. t. [From Snare, v. t.] 1. To entangle; to complicate; to involve in ... sigh, sing, skein, slanging match, snafu, snag, snake pit, snap, snare, snarl up, sniggle, snore, snort, sob, sough, spat, spit, ...
... a web; from spreading, extending or laying.] A net or snare; any thread, web or string spread for taking prey. A ... something by which one is held fast or inextricably involved ; snare, trap — usually used in plural < caught in the toils of ... to weave. See Text, and cf. Toilet.] A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually ... fatigues), work, exertion, pains, effort, drudgery, hard work, travail. 2. Snare, net, trap, springe, noose, gin. Moby Thesaurus bait, be employed ... seine, set up shop, shackle, slave, slavery, slog, slogging, slop, snare, snarl, sniggle, spadework, spinner, springe, squid, stay employed, stodge, strain ...
... fastened to an elastic body to catch small game 2. snare, trap Oxford Reference Dictionary n. a noose or snare for catching small game. Etymology: ME, rel. to obs. sprenge ... it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. --Shak. Webster's ... cleane corn. --Chaucer. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Snare, gin, noose, net, toil, trap. Moby Thesaurus bait, birdlime, bola ... meshes, mousetrap, net, noose, plug, pound net, purse seine, seine, snare, sniggle, spinner, squid, toils, trapfall, trawl, wobbler
... pipe or fife and the tabor, a small double-headed snare drum played with one stick. The side drum, or snare drum, has coiled wires or gut strings strung across the ... is played by a single person and normally includes a snare drum, tom-toms, a pedal-operated bass drum, and suspended ... dub, ruff, ruffle, scold, shower, shower down, side drum, sing, snare, snare drum, sound a tattoo, spatter, spit, splatter, splutter, sprinkle, sputter ...
... DECOY, n. 1. Any thing intended to lead into a snare; any lure or allurement that deceives and misleads into evil ... into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to ... De*coy", n. 1. Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into ... pitfall, plant, rattrap, rope in, seduce, seducement, set gun, shill, snare, snarl, sniggle, spread the toils, spring gun, stall, stool pigeon ...