Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
viseman .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A smith who works at the vice instead of at the anvil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
smith who works at thevice instead of at theanvil .
Etymologies
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vice + man
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Examples
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It was some time before I discovered that a viceman was a smith who worked with a vice rather than an anvil.
Know Your Anvils 2007
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I enjoyed the link to the anvil vices as I was very puzzled to see my g-g-grandfather described a “coach builder’s viceman” on an 1871 census.
Know Your Anvils 2007
bilby commented on the word viceman
The viceman cometh.
July 25, 2022