FORGE

forge, smithy

(noun) a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering

forge

(noun) furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping

invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge

(verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; “excogitate a way to measure the speed of light”

forge, fake, counterfeit

(verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive; “he faked the signature”; “they counterfeited dollar bills”; “She forged a Green Card”

fashion, forge

(verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner); “She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks”

shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge

(verb) make something, usually for a specific function; “She molded the rice balls carefully”; “Form cylinders from the dough”; “shape a figure”; “Work the metal into a sword”

forge, hammer

(verb) create by hammering; “hammer the silver into a bowl”; “forge a pair of tongues”

forge, spurt, spirt

(verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy

forge

(verb) move ahead steadily; “He forged ahead”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

forge (plural forges)

Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.

Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.

The act of beating or working iron or steel.

Etymology 2

Verb

forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)

(metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.

To form or create with concerted effort.

To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.

To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

Etymology 3

Make way, move ahead, most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in reference to vessels.

Verb

forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)

(often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.

(sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

Anagrams

• gofer

Proper noun

Forge (plural Forges)

A surname.

Source: Wiktionary

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Forge, n. Etym: [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. 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.

Forge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forged; p. pr. & vb. n. Forging.] Etym: [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.

Forge, v. i. Etym: [See Forge, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. Forge compel.]

1. To commit forgery.

2. (Naut.)

Definition: 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.

Forge, v. t. (Naut.)

Definition: To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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