a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit
a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities
a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa
to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him"