Vice (tool)
A vice was a metal tool with movable jaws used for holding objects firmly.

In 3189, after time traveling through a wormhole, Sylvia Tilly said that her head felt like it was in a vice. Later, Jett Reno described the  as a "ship in a vice", referring to the parasitic ice which was slowly entombing and crushing the ship. ()

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Tools