forge1
[fawrj, fohrj]
- to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
- to form or make, especially by concentrated effort: to forge a friendship through mutual trust.
- to imitate (handwriting, a signature, etc.) fraudulently; fabricate a forgery.
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- to commit forgery.
- to work at a forge.
- (of a horse at a trot) to strike the forefeet with the shoes of the hind feet.
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- a special fireplace, hearth, or furnace in which metal is heated before shaping.
- the workshop of a blacksmith; smithy.
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Origin of forge1
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counterfeiterExamples from the Web for forger
Contemporary Examples
If we wondered where a forger would get the materials to forge a text like this, we need look no further than eBay.
But the true forgery—like the work of Han van Meegeren, the Dutch World War 2-era forger of Vermeer—is actually very rare.
Sutherland had unwittingly purchased the paintings from a forger in California on eBay.
Of course these are derivative, too, almost as though Serra were his own pupil, or a forger of his own pieces.
The Daily Pic, Met Monday Edition: A forger's Rembrandt may carry us back to the master's own day.
Historical Examples
The forger smiled, and there was malignant triumph in his expression.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
The forger repeated the words with an inflection that was gloating.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
There was an indescribable menace in the forger's half-uttered threat.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
The forger of such a thunderbolt could not remain hid from the eyes of Europe.
Dreamers of the GhettoI. Zangwill
All the world has heard of me, from the Havannah to Guajuaqualla, as the poisoner and the forger!
Confessions Of Con CreganCharles James Lever
forge1
- a place in which metal is worked by heating and hammering; smithy
- a hearth or furnace used for heating metal
- a machine used to shape metals by hammering
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- (tr) to shape (metal) by heating and hammering
- (tr) to form, shape, make, or fashion (objects, articles, etc)
- (tr) to invent or devise (an agreement, understanding, etc)
- to make or produce a fraudulent imitation of (a signature, banknote, etc) or to commit forgery
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Word Origin
C14: from Old French forgier to construct, from Latin fabricāre, from faber craftsman
forge2
- to move at a steady and persevering pace
- to increase speed; spurt
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Word Origin
C17: of unknown origin
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Word Origin and History for forger
n.
late 14c., "a maker, a smith," agent noun from forge (v.). Meaning "a counterfeiter" is from 1550s.
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forge
n.
late 14c., "a smithy," from Old French forge (12c.) "forge, smithy," earlier faverge, from Latin fabrica "workshop," from faber (genitive fabri) "workman in hard materials, smith" (see fabric). As the heating apparatus itself, from late 15c.
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forge
v.1
c.1300, "to make, shape, create," from Old French forgier, from Latin fabricari "to frame, construct, build," from fabrica "workshop" (see forge (n.)). Meaning "to counterfeit" is early 14c. Related: Forged; forging.
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