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–noun, verb (used with object), viced, vic·ing.

vise.

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vise also vice Audio Help   (vīs) Pronunciation Key
n.   A clamping device, usually consisting of two jaws closed or opened by a screw or lever, used in carpentry or metalworking to hold a piece in position.

tr.v.   vised also viced, vis·ing also vic·ing, vis·es also vic·es
To hold or compress in or as if in a vise.

[Middle English vis, screwlike device, from Old French, screw, from Latin vītis, vine (from its spiral wrappings); see wei- in Indo-European roots.]

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Viced

Vice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Viced; p. pr. & vb. n. Vicing.] To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice. --Shak.

The coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh. --De Quincey.

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