Clamping device

The answer

VISE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the VISE answer page.

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1945. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for VISE

Every other clue in this collection answered by VISE, most used first.

• Workbench attachment - used 29 times, most recently in 2021
• Workbench clamp - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Carpenter's clamp - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Clamp - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• Workshop gripper - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Holding device - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Holding tool - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Shop clamp - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Tool with jaws - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Workbench gripper - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Workshop clamp - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Workbench device. - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Clamping tool - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Gripping tool - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• It has two jaws - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Shop gripper - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Workbench adjunct - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Workshop gadget - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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