Forge (fōrj), n. [F.
forge, fr. L. fabrica the workshop of an artisan who
works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan, smith, as adj.,
skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. ? soft, tender. Cf. Fabric.]
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.
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.
Raymond. -- Catalan forge. (Metal.)
See under Catalan. -- Forge cinder,
the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary. -- Forge
rolls, Forge train, the train of
rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. --
Forge wagon (Mil.), 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.
Forge, v. t. (Naut.) To
impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
Forge, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Forged (fōrjd); 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.
Forge, v. i. [See Forge,
v. t., and for sense 2, cf. Forge compel.]
1. To commit forgery.
2. (Naut.) 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. Totten.
And off she [a ship] forged without a
shock.
De Quincey.