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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.
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Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. --Shak.
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2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to
invent.
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Those names that the schools forged, and put into
the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance
into common use. --Locke.
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Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.
--Tennyson.
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3. To coin. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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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.
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That paltry story is untrue,
And forged to cheat such gulls as you. --Hudibras.
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Forged certificates of his . . . moral character.
--Macaulay.

Syn: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.
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Forge \Forge\ (f[=o]rj), 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.
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In the quick forge and working house of thought.
--Shak.
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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.
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3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the
manufacture of metallic bodies. [Obs.]
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In the greater bodies the forge was easy. --Bacon.
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{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.
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Forge \Forge\, v. i. [See {Forge}, v. t., and for sense 2, cf.
{Forge} compel.]
1. To commit forgery.
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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.
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And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. --De
Quincey.
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Forge \Forge\, v. t. (Naut.)
To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
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