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Portuguese
morsa
Catalan
cargol de banc
Spanish
tornillo de banco

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

morsa
1
Checker Marathon Checkers have all the cachet of a bench vise.
Wired
2
Scrap iron, molds, a bench vise, a bellows.
Conquest of the Useless
3
Place one stave in a bench vise and carefully clean off the bark with a draw knife.
Hunting with the Bow & Arrow