1. forge - Noun
2. forge - Verb
3. Forge - Proper noun
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 dictionaryWhoever 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