forge

forge has 19 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
• n.. furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping