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Forging

Forge \Forge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forged; p. pr. & vb. n. Forging.] [F. forger, OF. forgier, fr. L. fabricare, fabricari, to form, frame, fashion, from fabrica. See Forge, n., and cf. Fabricate.]

  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.]
    --Chaucer.

  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.

Forging

Forging \For"ging\, n.

  1. The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.

  2. The act of counterfeiting.

  3. (Mach.) A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel.

    There are very few yards in the world at which such forgings could be turned out.
    --London Times.

Wiktionary
forging

n. A component that is forged (shaped by heating and hammering). vb. (present participle of forge English)

WordNet
forging

n. shaping metal by heating and hammering

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Forging

Usage examples of "forging".

There was at last only one single Euglena, half-plant cousin of the protos, forging along beside the spaceship into the marches of the shallows.

With each thud of his heart, the streaks flowed farther down the shaft, fusing staff and body, forging weapon to wielder.

He took day trips to the castles, to Harlech, Caernarfon, Beaumaris, and Conwy and all the others that Edward had built, rebuilt, and garrisoned in the forging of his ring of iron.

He would never have agreed to Dom forging the sorts of bonds with Laris that would allow him mental control over her here on this physical plane.

She thought of Kalu, carefully forging real handmade letters by remote AI from his post at the bottom of the Pacific, and her heart squeezed itself closed over a sudden microburst of loving kindness.

By detaching one powered armor battalion from each of her ten divisions, Brokken had created the equivalent of an overstrength division that was all powered armor, and put Voroddon in charge of forging it into the Special Landing Force that would hit the ground first.

I think he was forging his Brentford captives into his instrument of thralldom, with Guardian and ley line power fueling his weapon.

Cyclopean workshop--the bustle, the hurry, the glare and shadow, the steam and sparks of Vulcanian forging.

Go out among them and tell them that their nostalgia for places they have never been is sex, the sweating Am-ha-aretz, and when they hear music, tell them it is their mother, tell Nicodemus, tell him there is no other way to be born again, and again and again and again of a thousand other mothers of others-to-be, tell him, my yetzer hara, tell them, tell them my evil heart, that they are hopeless, tell them what damnation is, and that they are damned, that what they have been forging all this time never existed.

Nearby is Aeneas, forging his new destiny here, no longer favored by the Fates.

They heard bursts of coarse laughter, smelled cookfires and food, glimpsed rooms where dwarves repaired gear or stoked charcoal fires for forging.

He switched off his torch and hooked it to his belt, using both hands to aid his flippered feet in forging ahead.

If he were to flush out all his IT and douse the sockets so as to flood the underlying electrodes with neurostimulators, the neurons further beneath would resume the business of forging new connections, further extending the synaptic tangles which already bound the contacts to every part of his brain.

Apparently some unlicensed syn-psych therapists have been forging referrals for a fee.

After setting the charcoal he had brought in before supper around the coals, he pumps the bellows rod until the charcoal catches and the coals reach forging heat.