It has snared, or threatens to snare, millions of taxpayers in the middle class and above.
"Operation Ivy League" last week snared five Columbia students, accused of running a large drug-selling operation.
Asher Merriwell had been snared by the wiles of an adventuress, and he had married her.
But suddenly she felt like a hunter who has snared a lion in a rabbit trap.
Folk said she snared birds and rabbits, in the thicket that came down to her hovel.
I had already been cozened once, I had resolved not to be snared again.
A failure or two and then he had it snared securely; now it was in his hand.
But he must be snared and held—surely not an easy task it is to catch him.
I snared that rabbit; been snaring them all summer; going to keep on snaring them after you're gone.
Her food had been roots and an occasional rabbit or partridge which she snared.
"noose for catching animals," late Old English, from a Scandinavian source, cf. Old Norse snara "noose, snare," related to soenri "twisted rope," from Proto-Germanic *snarkho (cf. Middle Dutch snare, Dutch snaar, Old High German snare, German Schnur "noose, cord," Old English snear "a string, cord"). Figuratively from c.1300.
"string across a drum," 1680s, probably from Dutch snaar "string," from same source as snare (n.1). From 1938 as short for snare-drum (1873).
late 14c., "to ensnare," from snare (n.1). Related: Snared; snaring.
snare (snâr)
n.
A surgical instrument with a wire loop controlled by a mechanism in the handle, used to remove growths, such as tumors and polyps.
