Coalmining. Also 7 weyse. [Of obscure origin. Cf. VEISE.] (See quots.)
1672. G. Sinclair, Misc. Observ. Hydrostat. (1683), 281. That which the coal-hewers term the vise, or some of them the weyse of the gae … which in effect is … but a dark vestige of the dipp or rise, that the body which now constitutes the gae, should have had naturally, if it had been perfected.
1789. J. Williams, Min. Kingd., I. 13. Your conductor, with the point of a pick, can open up a little of the vise or fissure in the pavement. Ibid., 14. The mine has been made in the vise or fissure of the slip. [See also VESTIGIA.]
1886. J. Barrowman, Sc. Mining Terms, 69. Veize, vees, vise, the line of fracture of a fault or hitch.
