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Meaning Of Forge
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.
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.
n.
The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture
of metalic bodies.
n.
To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any
particular shape, as a metal.
n.
To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to
invent.
n.
To coin.
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.
v. t.
To commit forgery.
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.
v. t.
To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.