Definitions for the word "forge" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
To coin.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To commit forgery.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v.
(-ging) 1 make or write in fraudulent imitation. 2 shape (metal) by heating and hammering. n. 1 furnace or workshop etc. For melting or refining metal. 2 blacksmith''s workshop; smithy. forger n. [latin fabrica: related to *fabric]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
12. v.
(-ging) move forward gradually or steadily. forge ahead 1 take the lead. 2 progress rapidly. [perhaps an alteration of *force1]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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