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forge

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1. forge - Noun

2. forge - Verb

3. Forge - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain. Anthony the Great

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

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. James Anthony Froude

A hammer will shatter glass yet it can forge steel. Russian Proverb

You cannot forge a good sword from bad iron. Turkish Proverb

It makes no sense to try to forge the iron whilst it is still cold. Arabic Proverb

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