A snare for catching birds or animals, made of cord, hair, wire, or the like, with a running noose. Obsolete exc. dialect or archaic.

A contrivance set for catching game or noxious animals; a gin, snare, pitfall: cf. mantrap, n. 1, mousetrap, n., rat trap, n. adj., spring-trap in s…

A device for capturing small wild animals or birds, usually consisting of a string with a running noose in which a foot or the head may be caught…

A snare, trap. Obsolete.

A snare, trap; a noose. (Cf. girn, n.1)

A snare used to catch birds or other small game, consisting of a flexible switch attached to a noose in which the animal is caught when the trap is…

A device for catching game, etc.; a snare, net, trap. Cf. engine, n. 4c. Now historical.

A snare.

A line for binding or attaching anything; normally one composed of twisted threads of spun vegetable fibre. A cord used as a snare. rare.

A trap or gin to catch small birds or beasts. Obsolete. rare. (So in French from 14th cent.)

A loop or noose; a gin, snare; a ‘tangle’; a latchet, thong. a latch of links: (dialect) a string of sausages. Obsolete exc. dialect and technical.

A snare, noose. Obsolete.

A snare, gin; a noose. Obsolete exc. dialect. Also figurative.

†(a) a snare for catching an animal by the foot; cf. foot-grin n.(obsolete); (b) a type of cotton gin operated by a foot treadle (now chiefly histo…

a snare; = foot gin n. (a).

A trap or snare for catching wild animals. Also in figurative contexts. Now rare (archaic and poetic in later use).

A tendon taken out of an animal body and used for some purpose, esp. for binding or tying with; hence, †a snare; a string in a musical instrument.

A trap, snare, entanglement. Obsolete.

(a) a trap or snare for the feet; †(b) the stocks, the pillory (obsolete).

A kind of trap for wolves and other wild beasts.

A noose or snare. Obsolete.

A device for catching game or fish, as a net, trap, or decoy. Cf. gin, n.1 4a.

A snare.

A structure made of parts joined or fitted together. Perhaps: a snare. Cf. engine, n. 2 Obsolete.

A cage of iron or wooden bars; a trap; figurative a snare, difficulty, dilemma. Obsolete.

A noose, trap. In quots. fig. Obs.

A trap which operates by the falling of a cage or similar container, or of a heavy object; (sometimes also) a trap into which the quarry is…

A snare, noose, or trap. Also figurative.

a trap, shaped like a box, used for capturing animals.

English regional (northern) in later use. A snare of a type used for catching birds, typically consisting of a flexible switch attached to a…

figurative. Something which snares, restrains, or binds; spec. marriage.

A snare used to catch birds or other small game, consisting of a flexible switch attached to a noose in which the animal is caught when the trap is…

figurative. A stratagem designed to deceive a person or lead him or her into a dangerous situation; a trap, a snare.

A trap or snare for wild beasts. Obsolete.

A net, a snare.

A kind of trap used esp. for large game, in which a weighted board or heavy log is arranged to fall upon and kill or disable the prey. Also attrib…

a snare (also figurative).

A snare or gin; a noose.

(a) a trap with jaws and spring of steel; (b) figurative (chiefly in attributive use) and in U.S. phrase smart as a steel trap and variants.

figure (of) four: a trap for catching animals, the trigger of which is set in the shape of the figure 4. Also figure four trap and in extended use.

a trap which when touched discharges a firearm.

A trap.

A trap for wild animals.

A snare used to catch birds or other small game. Cf. springe, n. 1. Somewhat rare in later use.

Any of various devices which spring or move suddenly. Cf. sprent, v. 1. English regional (northern). A snare of a sort used for catching birds; = s…

A trap for catching and holding live animals, usually without harming them.

A spring trap. Obsolete.

A long pole with a snare, brace, or noose attached to one end, typically used to capture or restrain an animal or (formerly also) person by the neck.

An animal snare consisting of a noose attached to a bent sapling or similar spring, which is pegged down at its furthest extremity, and springs up…

a circular steel trap fixed on the top of a post or pole for catching birds.

= steel trap n.

a wooden device for trapping an animal by the foot.

a trap consisting of two rectangular metal frames designed to snap shut on the body of an animal, killing it instantly.

A trap consisting of two rectangular metal frames designed to snap shut on the body of an animal, killing it instantly; = conibear trap n. at sense 1.