Silently he caught the Doctor's arm in a viselike grip and pointed.
It was as if giant hands had gripped him, were holding him in a viselike clutch.
Fingers bit into Kennon's neck and tightened in a viselike grip.
Spasmodically, he set his fangs in a viselike tightening of his grip.
He took Daiches' arm in a viselike grasp and started to lead him from the store.
"I like your spirit," he said seizing Curlie's hand in a viselike grip.
Roger twisted around in Astro's viselike grasp, to no avail.
But Texas's knees still clung, viselike, to the sides of the pony.
He struggled to free himself from the viselike grip but it was hopeless.
He held the fish in the viselike grip of his right hand until it stopped moving.
c.1300, "device like a screw or winch for bending a crossbow or catapult," from Old French vis, viz "screw," from Latin vitis "vine, tendril of a vine," literally "that which winds," from root of viere "to bind, twist" (see withy). The meaning "clamping tool with two jaws closed by a screw" is first recorded c.1500.
