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Forge   /fɔrdʒ/   Listen
noun
Forge  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. "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. (Obs.) "In the greater bodies the forge was easy."
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.
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.


verb
Forge  v. t.  (past & past part. forged; pres. part. forging)  
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. (Obs.)
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."
Synonyms: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.


Forge  v. t.  (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.


Forge  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. "And off she (a ship) forged without a shock."





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"Forge" Quotes from Famous Books



... caught glimpses of this man's great figure towering above the roaring forge and saw the crowd of lesser men, their husbands, gathered about him. They went home and told each other that George Hoskins was a big, rude brute, that he drank like a fish and would bring the town to ruin, for he ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds
... process, because I believe that, with certain exceptions, the manufacture of iron by puddling is a doomed industry. I ventured to say, in a lecture I delivered at the Royal Institution three years ago on "The Future of Steel," that I believed puddled iron, except for the mere hand wrought forge purposes of the country blacksmith, and for such like purposes, would soon become a thing of the past. Mr. Harrison, the engineer of the North-Eastern Railway, told me that about eighteen months ago the North-Eastern Railway applied for tenders for rails in any quantities between 2,000 and 10,000 ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 • Various
... between them, and that bond is not a reminiscence, but a living, vital, and efficient fact. Only but yesterday, politicians, thank God not the people, sought for selfish ends to cast back the South into Stygian gloom from which she had slowly and laboriously but gloriously emerged, to forge upon her again hope-killing shackles of a barbarous rule. In that hour of trial which you and I, sir, know to have been a menace and a reality to whom did she turn for succor? To this man of the West, and quick and glorious was ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various
... proclaim, beyond a doubt, which season of the four is bearing rule. Such a thing cannot be of private interpretation; and prophecy, when fulfilled, is as easy seen, and is not of private interpretation. A man is as foolish in forging prophecy as one would be in trying to forge Winter by putting artificial leaves on trees, and flowers on bushes. The thing is easily known if we exercise our reason. In this line of thought we are sorry to note that men have more faith than reason; hence the blunderings of prophetic ...
— The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 • Joseph Wild
... passed, till, one day, Loveday, leaning at the forge- door, happened to say: "Are you interested in current politics? The East Norfolk division is being contested, one of the candidates, Sir Bennett Beaumont, is a friend of mine, and I was thinking that I might go to the meeting ...
— The Lord of the Sea • M. P. Shiel


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