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the steel handshake that never lets go and never apologizes for it
means A clamping tool with two jaws tightened by a screw, used to hold a workpiece firmly in place while you cut, file, or hammer it.
from From the Old French 'vis,' meaning a screw or winding staircase, which traces back to Latin 'vitis,' a vine — that twisting, spiraling climber. The thread of a screw curls like a grapevine, so the same word came to mean both. English borrowed it, and in American spelling it settled as 'vise' (Britain keeps 'vice'), the gripping tool that owes its name to a coiling plant.
name originFrom Latin vitis, meaning a winding vine.
jaw forceCheap bench models clamp with tons of pressure.
woodworker variantWooden jaws grip without bruising soft timber.
spelling splitBrits write vice for the same tool.
machinist stapleBolted to nearly every workbench on Earth.