Forge
Forge (fōrj) , noun
[French forge, from Latin fabrica the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials, from faber artisan, smith, as adj., skillful, ingenious; compare Greek {not transcribed} soft, tender. Compare Fabric.]
1.
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.
In the quick forge and working house of thought.
2.
The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
3.
The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies. [Obsolete]
In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
Collocations (6)
American forge , a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously. — Raymond
Forge cinder , the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary.
Forge rolls or Forge train , the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars.
Forge wagon (Military) , a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools.
Portable forge , a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.
Forge , transitive verb
[French forger, Old French forgier, from Latin fabricare, fabricari, to form, frame, fashion, from fabrica. See Forge, n., and compare Fabricate.]
1.
To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
Mars's armor forged for proof eterne.
2.
To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.
Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.
3.
To coin. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
4.
To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.
That paltry story is untrue,
And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
Forged certificates of his... moral character.
Forge , intransitive verb
[See Forge, transitive verb, and for sense 2, compare Forge compel.]
1.
To commit forgery.
2.
(Nautical) 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. — Totten
And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.
Forge , transitive verb
(Nautical) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.