forge
A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
Noun
- A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main...
- A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- The act of beating or working iron or steel.
- In the greater bodies the forge was easy. - 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […]...
- A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
- If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […] - 2018, V. M. Brasseur, Forge Your Future with Open Source, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:
Synonyms: software forge
Origin
From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric and fabrica. Partially displaced English smithy. * Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999.
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American forge brute de forge Catalan forge Clifton Forge Consall Forge forge-hammer forgelike forgeman forgemaster Forge Valley forge wagon microforge software forge
Verb arts, crafts
- To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
- On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne - c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio),...
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a...
- To form or create with concerted effort.
- The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.
- Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. - 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […]...
- O purblind race of miserable men, / How many among us at this very hour / Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. / By taking true for false, or false for true. - 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the...
Synonyms: carve out
- To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
- He had to forge his ex-wife's signature. The jury learned the documents had been forged.
- To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
- That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you. - 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn...
Origin
From Middle English forgen, from Anglo-Norman forger and Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”). Doublet of fabricate.
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Verb often
- To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
- The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.
- We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.
- And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. - 1849, Thomas De Quincey, “Dream-Fugue”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
- To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
- With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.
- Let's forge past that runner on the inside.
Origin
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 reference to vessels.