| Forge (forge) |
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| n. | (f rj) |
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| Forge |
| [F.
forge, fr. L. fabrica the workshop of an artisan who
works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan, smith, as adj.,
skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. (?) soft, tender. Cf. Fabric.] |
A place or establishment where iron or other
metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace,
or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a
smithy.
The works where wrought iron is produced
directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by
puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
The act of beating or working iron or
steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies.
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To form by heating and hammering] to beat into any particular
shape, as a metal.
To form or shape out in any way; to
produce; to frame; to invent.
To coin.
To make falsely; to produce, as that which
is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a
signature, or a signed document.
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To commit forgery.
To move heavily and slowly,
as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship
in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge
ahead.
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To
impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
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