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Spring-vise.

1. One whose jaws have an appreciable amount of grip by the force resident in a compressing spring.

2. A small vise used for confining the main-spring of a gun-lock when the lock is to be taken apart. They are issued to the troops in the proportion of one to each ten muskets.

Spring-wagon.

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