Definition of Forge

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Definition of Forge

Forge

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.

The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.

The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.

To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.

To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.

To coin.

To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.

To commit forgery.

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.

To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.

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Forge Quotations

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
John Calvin

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood

We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
James Earl Jones

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.
Sharon Gless

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.
Jim Gerlach

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.
Solomon Ortiz

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
Karen Hughes

Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.
Nick Lampson

Forge Translations

forge in Dutch is smeden
forge in Finnish is takoa
forge in French is forgez, forge, forgent, forgeons, modelage, forger
forge in Italian is falsare, formare, forgiare, inventare
forge in Latin is suppono subpono
forge in Portuguese is forja
forge in Spanish is falisficar, forjar, inventar, amoldar, forja

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