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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Forge \Forge\, n. [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}.] 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. --Shak. 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 metalic bodies. [Obs.] In the greater bodies the forge was easy. --Bacon. {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. {Catalan forge}. (Metal.) See under {Catalan}. {Forge cinder}, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary. {Forge rolls}, {Forge train}, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. {Forge wagon} (Mil.), 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Forge \Forge\, v. i. [See {Forge}, v. t., and for sense 2, cf {Forge} compel.] 1. To commit forgery. 2. (Naut.) 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. --De Quincey. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Forge \Forge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Forged}; p. pr & vb n. {Forging}.] [F. forger, OF forgier, fr L. fabricare, fabricari to form frame, fashion, from fabrica. See {Forge}, n., and cf {Fabricate}.] 1. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. --Shak. 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 --Locke. Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves --Tennyson. 3. To coin. [Obs.] --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 --Hudibras. Forged certificates of his . . . moral character. --Macaulay. Syn: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Forge \Forge\, v. t. (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as to forge a ship forward. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: forge n 1: a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping 2: a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering [syn: {smithy}] v 1: of metals [syn: {hammer}] 2: make a copy of with the intent to deceive [syn: {fake}, {counterfeit}] 3: come up with [syn: {invent}, {contrive}, {devise}, {excogitate}, {formulate}] 4: move ahead steadily; "He forged ahead" 5: move with increasing speed [syn: {spurt}, {spirt}] 6: make something usually for a specific function; "She molded the riceballs carefully"; "Form the dough into cylinders" [syn: {shape}, {form}, {mold}, {mould}] 7: make out of components; often in an improvising manner; "She made a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks" [syn: {fashion}]
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