forging
Americannoun
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forgings
plural
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an act or instance of forging.
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something forged; a piece of forged work in metal.
noun
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the process of producing a metal component by hammering
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the act of a forger
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a metal component produced by this process
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the collision of a horse's hind shoe and fore shoe
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Etymology
Origin of forging
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; forge 1 + -ing 1
Vocabulary lists containing forging
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He then followed his father to Manchester City in 2008 and worked with him again at Fulham before forging his own path abroad.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
McCraney, Geffen Playhouse’s artistic director, said forging a path forward in nonprofit theater without succumbing to commercial pressure to produce only guaranteed hits requires the delicate balance of surfing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
He received a hero’s welcome in Hostage Square in Tel Aviv after forging a tenuous Gaza ceasefire last October, visibly moved as he was drowned out by appreciative shouts of “Thank you, Witkoff!”
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Norway, Chile and Australia and that the company is forging ahead with plants and assembly partners in Europe and the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Except it’s too late, he’s already brushed past me and is forging ahead into the moonlit dark.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
A few miles away, Howmet, where my father worked next, made airfoils, rings, disks, forgings and other parts for airplanes, including the infamous F-35 fighter jet.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
The sectors are: casting and forgings, missiles and munitions, energy storage and batteries, strategic and critical materials and microelectronics.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
Like all Miura forgings, the K-Grind 2.0 wedge is forged at headquarters in Himeji, Japan, using the company’s 14-step forging process.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 11, 2019
Brian Pelke, president of Kay Manufacturing Co., an auto supplier near Chicago, is eager to see whether the tariffs apply to steel forgings as well as to raw steel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2018
As forgings, the threads are beautifully clean, and for the general work of coach screws much stronger than the cut threads.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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