Forge
English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Forge
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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.
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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.
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3 n.
The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
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4 n.
To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
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5 n.
To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
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6 n.
To coin.
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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.
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8 v. t.
To commit forgery.
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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.
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10 v. t.
To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
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11 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.
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12 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.
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13 n.
The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
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14 n.
To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
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15 n.
To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
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16 n.
To coin.
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17 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.
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18 v. t.
To commit forgery.
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19 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.
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20 v. t.
To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.