Forge

/fɔːd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
2. A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
3. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
4. (computing) A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
5. (metallurgy, metalworking) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
6. To form or create with concerted effort.
7. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
8. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

Example Sentences

Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge.

In the greater bodies the forge was easy.

If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […]

On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne

Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.

The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.

Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.

O purblind race of miserable men, / How many among us at this very hour / Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. / By taking true for false, or false for true.

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• forges
• forging
• forged

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