Forge — Defs

01 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…

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.
“In the quick forge and working house of thought.” — Shak.
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.
3.
The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies.[Obs.]
“In the greater bodies the forge was easy.” — Bacon.

Phrases & compounds

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.

Catalan forge — See under Catalan.

Forge cinder — the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary.

Forge rolls — the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars.

Forge wagon — 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.

02 v. t. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.

imp. & p. p. Forged; p. pr. & vb. n. Forging

1.
To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
“Mars's armor forged for proof eterne.” — Shak.
2.
To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
“Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.” — Locke.

“Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.” — Tennyson.
3.
To coin.[Obs.]
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.
“That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you.” — Hudibras.

“Forged certificates of his . . . moral character.” — Macaulay.

Syn. To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.

03 v. i. To commit forgery.

1.
To commit forgery.
2.
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.(Naut.)
“And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.” — De Quincey.

04 v. t. To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

1.
To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.(Naut.)