FORGE


Meaning of FORGE in English

vt to commit forgery.

2. forge ·noun to coin.

3. forge ·vt to impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

4. forge ·noun the act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.

5. forge ·noun to form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.

6. forge ·noun to form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.

7. forge ·noun the works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.

8. forge ·noun to make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.

9. forge ·vt 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.

10. 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.

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