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forge
/fɔɹd͡ʒ/
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What does forge mean?
noun
- A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- The act of beating or working iron or steel.
More meanings (8)
noun
- A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
verb
- 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.
- To move forward slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily, especially in the face of resistance or difficulty.
- To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
proper noun
- A surname from Old French.
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IPA pronunciation
/fɔɹd͡ʒ/
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The fire in the forge had been suffered to go out, and we were one and all too weary to kindle another.
Starting at forge and furnace in the roaring mills, facing facts instead of books, I have been schooled in life's hard lessons.
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I went down early in the morning, and alighted at the Blue Boar in good time to walk over to the forge.
In ordnance the instructions are on the preparation of military fireworks, fixing of ammunition and packing it, the battery wagon and forge.
The last-named, Bickerton, "bus-driver" and air-tractor expert, had converted, with the aid of a few pieces of covering tin, into a forge.