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"snare" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often trap (4 letters).
Definitions
A trap, especially one using a loop or noose.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“He […] watched Beavis’s long-toothed mouth open and clap to like a rabbit snare.”
“He felt a snare tightening around his throat; he gasped and threw a leg out of the bed, where it jerked for a second or two, thumping the steel frame, and died.”
“If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed, Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Trap with a loop”5 letters
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