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snare
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snare1
1. a device for trapping birds or small animals, esp a flexible loop that is drawn tight around the prey
2. a surgical instrument for removing certain tumours, consisting of a wire loop that may be drawn tight around their base to sever or uproot them

snare2
Music a set of gut strings wound with wire fitted against the lower drumhead of a snare drum. They produce a rattling sound when the drum is beaten


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Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen failed to last long as India attacked on two fronts: Harbhajan, who enticed a nick to send Bell back before lunch, and Kumble, the snarer of Flintoff, probing away on a parched pitch already showing signs of cracking up, while Pathan and Sreesanth exploited the reverse swing on offer.
India attacked on two fronts: Harbhajan, who enticed a nick to send Ian Bell back before lunch, and Kumble, the snarer of Flintoff, probing away on a parched pitch already showing signs of cracking up, while Pathan and Sreesanth exploited the reverse swing on offer.
Then you get the 'sniggerers', who go down to a well-stocked salmon pool armed with large weighted treble hooks to rip fish out; snarers, who use rabbit snares on poles to tail them out; and gangs of prawners, who descend on fly-only stretches and wheech them out.
 
 
 
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