forge

1. n. 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. Source: opted

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

3. n. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies. Source: opted

4. n. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. Source: opted

5. n. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent. Source: opted

6. n. To coin. Source: opted

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

8. v. t. To commit forgery. Source: opted

9. v. t. 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. Source: opted

10. v. t. To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward. Source: opted

11. n. furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping Source: wordnet

12. n. a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering Source: wordnet

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