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  • noun Plural form of vise.

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Examples

  • Gideon locked his arms and legs around Kate, tight as vises.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • Gideon locked his arms and legs around Kate, tight as vises.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • So I take everything they say as BS and their cause is moot by their own actions/vises.

    PETA Wants to Banish the University of Georgia Bulldog 2009

  • Little Machine Shop also sells all sorts of sundries and essentials for mills, such as collets, edge and center finders, vises, test indicators, parallels, and so on.

    CNC Z-axis fixed! « The Half-Baked Maker 2010

  • Gideon locked his arms and legs around Kate, tight as vises.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • So I take everything they say as BS and their cause is moot by their own actions/vises.

    PETA Wants to Banish the University of Georgia Bulldog 2009

  • Gideon locked his arms and legs around Kate, tight as vises.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • The new American slogan appears to be: "Talk big about human rights and watch from the sidelines with folded arms as thugs and gangsters clamp their peoples 'heads in steel vises, punch them in the gut with clenched fists and hang, draw and quarter them behind closed prison walls."

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: Steel Vises, Clenched Fists and Closing Walls (Part I) 2010

  • The women were then tortured with nails, thumb presses, vises, iron collars, among other disturbing devices, and ordered to provide the names of the other women in their covens.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • Alma felt as if her feet were being crushed in vises.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

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