It was a rope noose.

Working in pairs, the men take the fledglings from their nests with poles, catching them around the neck with a rope noose, then killing the birds with a blow to the head.

He loosened the rope noose from around Crow's neck, coiled it round his waist again, and looked thoughtfully at the three slumbering toughs.

There are two poignant images in the video are the dolls head falling to the ground and the child swing from the hanging rope noose.

The body hung from a traditional rope noose just a few feet beyond the four-poster bed.

And then there was a hangman's noose--not a drawing, an actual rope noose--hanging over a passageway.

Immediately, on 4 December 1844, the statue of Santa Anna in El Volador was decorated with a white hood and a rope noose, like a hanged man.

It went down on one knee before the struggling pair, and without hesitation, slipped a rope noose around the lizard's jaws.

He hadn't time to move or think before the rope noose settled gently over his head and tightened, pressing his arms against his body.

Jens, meanwhile, had been dressed in a nightshift, with a rope noose around his neck; his guards looked to the captain.