Snare
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snare¹
- /snɛ(ə)ɹ/ US
- /snɛə/ UK
- /sneː/ Australia
- /sneə/ New Zealand
- /sniə/
- /sneɹ/ Scotland
- /snɜː(ɹ)/
Sounds like sneer (cheer–chair merger) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English snare, from Old English sneare (“snare, noose”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarhā, from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ (“a sling; loop; noose”). Cognate with Old Norse snara. Also related to German Schnur and Dutch snaar, snoer.
noun snares
- 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.
- A mental or psychological trap. If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle 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.
- A snare drum.
verb snares · snaring · snared
- To catch or hold, especially with a loop. The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.
- 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.
Snare²
Where it comes from
* As a Norwegian surname, from several farms whose name derive from snar (“thicket, brushwood”), perhaps related to Old Norse snarpr (“coarse, rough, sharp”).
* As an English surname, variant of Snarr.
proper noun Snares
- A surname.
SNARE³
Where it comes from
Short for SNAP receptor.
noun SNAREs
- Any of a class of proteins whose primary role is to mediate vesicle fusion.
