Vise

Quick meaning: Vise is a noun meaning (US) An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.

Meaning

(US) An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) A situation in which one's freedom of choice is constrained.
2. To clamp with or as with a vise.
3. Alternative form of visé.
4. (obsolete) A screw.
5. (obsolete) A spiral staircase.

Example Sentences

He looked to see the secretary, vised and crackled in those arms, drop limp and senseless.

“There's my girl,” he whispered. He reached back to lift each of her legs to vise her knees under his arms.

I'd like to know what would become of us in the next ten minutes. They've got us in a vise. We're done for, Gall.

Repeat this step to make the bend at the other 39-inch mark being careful that it is also at a 90° angle to the vised pipe, and also parallel to the first bend.

Word Forms

• vises
• vising
• vised
• viseing

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clamp, gauntlet, noose, stranglehold, grip, bank.

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