machinist's vise

1. 1.

   a vise with two parallel iron jaws and a wide opening below

   Synonymsmetalworking vise

   Broadervise

Questions about machinist's vise

What does machinist's vise mean?

machinist's vise means "a vise with two parallel iron jaws and a wide opening below".

What is another word for machinist's vise?

Close synonyms include metalworking 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 machinist's vise a common word?

machinist's 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.