The thick mantle of glossy foliage often hides the multitude of hooks, loops, and nooses which the pliant cane flings round branch and stem, gripped by long ropes of flexible fibre, hardening into thick coils, rigid and unyielding as iron.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
It had a series of running nooses in it, and he slipped one of these about the wrist of each native, drawing it tight.
"Man of Many Minds"
E. Everett Evans
He had heard of nooses being set for animals as large as the quaggas, and of many being caught in that manner.
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid