Forge(n.)
- 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.
Forge(n.)
- The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
Forge(n.)
- The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
Forge(n.)
- To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
Forge(n.)
- To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
Forge(v. t.)
- 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.
Forge(v. t.)
- To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.