In the quick forge and working house of thought.
--Shak.
2. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the
ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and
shingling; a shingling mill.
3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the
manufacture of metalic bodies. [Obs.]
In the greater bodies the forge was easy. --Bacon.
{American forge}, a forge for the direct production of
wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly
in using finely crushed ore and working continuously.
--Raymond.
{Catalan forge}. (Metal.) See under {Catalan}.
{Forge cinder}, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary.
{Forge rolls}, {Forge train}, the train of rolls by which a
bloom is converted into puddle bars.
{Forge wagon} (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a
blackmith's forge and tools.
{Portable forge}, a light and compact blacksmith's forge,
with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.
2. (Naut.) 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. --Totten.
And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. --De
Quincey.
Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. --Shak.
2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to
invent.
Those names that the schools forged, and put into
the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance
into common use. --Locke.
Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.
--Tennyson.
4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or
not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a
signature, or a signed document.
That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat
such gulls as you. --Hudibras.
Forged certificates of his . . . moral character.
--Macaulay.
Syn: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify.