The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forcing \For"cing\, n.
The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.
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(Gardening) The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat.
Forcing bed or Forcing pit, a plant bed having an under layer of fermenting manure, the fermentation yielding bottom heat for forcing plants; a hotbed.
Forcing engine, a fire engine.
Forcing fit (Mech.), a tight fit, as of one part into a hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use considerable force in putting the two parts together.
Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc.
Forcing machine, a powerful press for putting together or separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into another, as for forcing a crank on a shaft, or for drawing off a car wheel from the axle.
Forcing pump. See Force pump (b) .
Wiktionary
n. A place where plants are forced into maturity sooner than would naturally happen; also ''figuratively''.
Usage examples of "forcing house".
The Mediterranean was a Darwinian forcing house, where success was achieved at the cost of ruthlessness.
As a forcing house for fruit trees, the Conservatory was absolutely useless, because it was accessible only through the Library, and hadn't been used for anything for seventy-five years, but the sight of that faceted absurdity always gave him joy.