snare

noun

• 1a trap for catching birds or mammals, typically one having a noose of wire or cord.
• a thing likely to lure or tempt someone into harm or error:seducers laid their snares for innocent provincials

• 2a length of wire, gut, or hide stretched across a drumhead to produce a rattling sound.
• (also snare drum) a drum fitted with snares; a side drum.

• 3 Surgery a wire loop for severing polyps or other growths.

verb

• catch (a bird or mammal) in a snare: the foxes were humanely snared
• catch or trap (someone):five blackmailers were snared in a police sting