| forge |
noun |
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 metalic bodies., 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., 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., To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward. |