Clamp

A wise businessman knows how to clamp down on costs.

Tighten the clamp before you start sawing.

Ziri asked Yazid if he could borrow his quick grip clamp.

Her head was shaved and secured in a three-pronged skull clamp.

If you dampen two pieces of plywood and bend then, you can glue the two layers together, clamp them in place still bent, and make a permanent bent double layer.

I'll buy a new clamp.

Two scientists in Scotland have developed a pocket-sized device to check whether whiskey is fake, using equipment originally developed to examine blood samples. They hope the techniques won’t just help the whisky industry clamp down on fakes which cost it hundreds of millions of dollars a year — but will also save lives.

Ziri used a clamp on the workbench for stability.

[T]he pots would be stacked in a heap, covered with wood chippings and brushwood and domed over with turves, leaving a few air vents around the sides. When complete the clamp would be fired[.]

As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion. The great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, clamped together like those of a wild beast.