snare

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

He […] watched Beavis’s long-toothed mouth open and clap to like a rabbit snare.

He felt a snare tightening around his throat; he gasped and threw a leg out of the bed, where it jerked for a second or two, thumping the steel frame, and died.

A mental or psychological trap.

If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:

[…] if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

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

A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.

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

To catch or hold, especially with a loop.

The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.

Lest that too heavenly form […] snare them.

To ensnare.

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

[…] the slightest recollection of hearing the wind whistling through the cracks in the old house or the rain snaring its tat-a-tat on the rusty tin roof.

[…] T-Ray snared the drum in the background.

A surname.