bench vise

1. 1.

   a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place

   Synonymsvise

   Broaderholding device

   Narrowermachinist's visewood vise

   Partsjaw

Questions about bench vise

What does bench vise mean?

bench vise means "a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place".

What is another word for bench vise?

Close synonyms include vise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bench vise a common word?

bench vise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.