köken: 16th century, from schrauben (“to screw”) + Stock (literally “stick, trunk”). The latter word here probably continues the use of Middle High German stoc for a kind of wooden block used to shackle prisoners. Compare also French étau.
vise, vice (instrument consisting of two jaws for holding work) · noose, net
çekim: çoğul étaux
köken: From Middle French estau, estot (“vise”, 16th c.). Probably from Old French estoc (“trunk”), from Frankish *stokk; compare German Schraubstock. If so, a doublet of estoc. Alternatively, a doublet of étal instead, but the Middle French form in -ot makes this appear less likely, particularly as the same spelling also occurs for estoc in other senses.
L'étau se resserre.
L'étau se resserre autour du Haut-Karabakh, que Bakou entend ramener dans son giron.
köken: Possibly from garfa (“animal's claw”), from Andalusian Arabic جَارْفَا (gārfā, “handful”), from Arabic غُرْفَة (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ (ḡarafa, “to ladle”), with influence from garfio (“hook”). Or, possibly from Vulgar Latin *garra, from Gaulish *garrā (“leg”) (compare Breton gar, Old Irish gairri (“calves”)), from Proto-Celtic *garros; see Cornish garr.
köken: From Ottoman Turkish منگنه (mengene), according to Nisanyan itself a borrowing from Byzantine Greek μάγγανο (mángano) from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon).