meaning of forge
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.
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 metalic bodies.
4. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
5. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
6. To coin.
7. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.
8. To commit forgery.
9. To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work ones way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead.
10. To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
11. a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
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