Forge Definition

fôrj
forged, forges, forging
noun
forges
A furnace for heating metal to be wrought.
Webster's New World
A place where metal is heated and hammered or wrought into shape; smithy.
Webster's New World
A place where wrought iron is made from pig iron or iron ore.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
forged, forges, forging
To form or shape (metal) with blows or pressure from a hammer, press, or other machine, usually after heating.
Webster's New World
To form (metal) by a mechanical or hydraulic press.
American Heritage
To move forward steadily, as if against difficulties.
Webster's New World
To make (something) by or as by this method; form; shape; produce.
Webster's New World
To work at a forge.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Forge

Noun

Singular:
forge
Plural:
forges

Origin of Forge

  • Make way, move ahead, most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in referrence to vessels.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Vulgar Latin faurga from Latin fabrica from faber worker

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Anglo-Norman forger, from Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Probably from forge

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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