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Forge
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
(2):
(v. t.) To commit forgery.
(3):
(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.
(4):
(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.
(5):
(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.
(6):
(n.) The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
(7):
(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.
(8):
(n.) To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
(9):
(n.) To coin.
(10):
(n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Forge'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/f/forge.html. 1828.
