forging

The process of shaping by heating and hammering.

Noun

  1. The process of shaping by heating and hammering.
    • […] repeated forgings and workings of wrought-iron […] - 1868, Francis Herbert Joynson, The Metals Used in Construction: Iron, Steel, Bessemer Metal, page 68:
  2. A component that is forged (shaped by heating and hammering).
    • […]one set of 16-inch steel gun forgings[…] - 1896, United States, Annual report of the Secretary of War:
    • Fabrication has been the method used in the construction of many components that would normally be made from steel castings and forgings. - 1944 July and August, “British-Built Austerity 2-10-0 Locomotive”, in Railway...

Forms

forgings

Derived

drop forging nanoforging

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of forge