snares
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After these events, Saint Anthony had a vision where the whole world was full of snares and traps.
For her, the poor are fortunate because they will never be trapped by the snares of wealth: "Happy is it when people have the cares of life to struggle with; for these struggles prevent their becoming a prey to enervating vices, merely from idleness!"
And even though trap-style skittering snares eventually show up, the song hardly includes any actual rapping … well, except by the modern, post-Drake, post-Post definition in which syncopated singing is rapping.
Early hunting methods included darts, arrows, nets and snares but later, traps were set on land and guns used.
If the strainer is disengaged, the sound of the drum resembles a tom because the snares are inactive.
Just as a spark sets coals on fire, the wicked man prepares his snares in order to draw blood.