Forge : (noun)
1: furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated
before shaping
2: a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
[syn: smithy]
(verb)
1: create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge
a pair of tongues" [syn: hammer]
2: make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the
signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged
a Green Card" [syn: fake, counterfeit]
3: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or
priciple) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to
measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise,
excogitate, formulate]
4: move ahead steadily; "He forged ahead"
5: move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy [syn:
spurt, spirt]
6: make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded
the riceballs carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough";
"shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" [syn: shape,
form, work, mold, mould]
7: make out of components (often in an improvising manner);
"She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"
[syn: fashion]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Forge : \Forge\, v. t. (Naut.)
To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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