[f. SNARE v.] One who sets snares or traps. Also fig.
1597. Middleton, Wisd. Solomon, xvii. 14. Snare without snarer, net without a bait. Ibid. (1623), More Dissemblers, II. i. He … has broke through the net … And left the snarer here herself entangled.
1807. Crabbe, Par. Reg., I. 178. Snarers and smugglers here their gains divide.
1885. Law Times Rep., LII. 327/1. The proviso did not apply to snarers like Gilham, who captured birds on certain lands.
