Vise-Grip


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Vise-Grip

 (vīs′grĭp′)
A trademark for pliers, wrenches, and clamps that can be locked at a set position.
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In a statement, Mejorada said his indictment is 'part of a vise-grip being employed by those in power that is growing stronger and tighter to curtail press freedom.'
But even if Matthysse holds only one world title, the knockout artist from Argentina has earned it with distinction and has kept it with a vise-grip rarely seen in the beak-busting business.
Applications for extension springs include automotive interiors and exteriors, garage door assemblies, vise-grip pliers, carburettors and butterfly valves, trampolines, washing devices, farm machinery, toys, as well as thousands of other uses.
Brownells has offered a converted Vise-Grip plier for years which did a wonderful job.
CHANNELLOCK GRIP LOK WRENCH This plier-type wrench is similar to a Vise-Grip wrench.
There's no statistical support for the notion that pits harm more people than any other breed of dog, and they don't actually have magical vise-grip jaws (a "fact" not supported by any real evidence).
Now Irwin Tools has introduced a new version called the PowerSlot (aka the VISE-GRIP Max-Leverage Pliers with PowerSlot, Diagonal Cutting, 8-inch #1902413).
But with work, family and other time commitments placing a vise-grip on our schedules, monitoring even 100 acres can be a difficult task, especially when that acreage isn't right out the back door.
"It is disturbing that with all of the strides we have made in becoming a more tolerant society, anti-Semitic beliefs continue to hold a vise-grip on a small but not insubstantial segment of the American public," the ADL's Abraham Foxman said.
Her father, a lean man with a vise-grip handshake, had come to school one day.
Had he been successful with this venture I have to wonder what his plans were for the cracks and the vise-grip marks he left behind.
Costa Rica kept a vise-grip on defence, fighting hard to deny Brazil space, and using fast counterattacks and good shots from distance to try and unsettle the tournament favourite.