Forge
Definition of Forge
Pronunciation: fōrj n. | 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. | | 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.Catalan forge | (Metal.) See under Catalan. - Raymond. |
| v. t. | 1. | To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. | | 2. | To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent. | | 3. | To coin. | | 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. | v. i. | 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. | v. t. | 1. | (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward. |
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