swage
Americannoun
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swages
plural
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a tool for bending cold metal to a required shape.
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a tool, die, or stamp for giving a particular shape to metal on an anvil, in a stamping press, etc.
verb (used with object)
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to bend or shape by means of a swage.
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to reduce or taper (an object), as by forging or squeezing.
noun
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a shaped tool or die used in forming cold metal by hammering, pressing, etc
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a decorative moulding
verb
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Etymology
Origin of swage
1325–75; Middle English souage < Middle French
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An anvil sits in the center of the space near a grooved swage block for shaping metal and a power hammer for pounding it.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2016
If the conditions are such that a swage must be used to perform forging rather than finishing, its seat should be V-shaped and not curved.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
We may check it to some extent, however, by employing a bottom swage block, as in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
This capacitates one swage for different sizes of iron.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The first operation is to swage down one end, as at a in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Obviously such swages are employed when the part to be swaged is less in length than the width of the hammer or of the anvil face.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The square hole is for receiving the stems of swages, fullers, &c., and for placing work over to punch holes through it, and the round is used for punching small holes.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The tool for performing the eighth operation consists of a pair of swages, the bottom one only being shown in Fig. 8a.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various
For general work the recesses or seats of such swages would be made considerably oval, as in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
A hand forge, with a crank-driven fan blower, and a hundred and fifty pound anvil, and sledges and cutters and swages and tongs.
From Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper
To straighten the iron it is flattened on the surface a and swaged on the edge of the flange b, the bending and straightening being performed alternately.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The airship swaged more than ever, and the occupants were tossed about in the cabin, from side to side.
From Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
A.--The materials for wheel tires are first swaged separately, and then welded together under the heavy hammer at the steel works; after which they are bent to the circle, welded, and turned to certain gauges.
From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.
The collar is left open at the joint, and while it is cold it is placed on the red-hot bar and swaged until the ends are closed.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
This form of shoe rasp is the one in general use at this time, having almost entirely superseded the flat and swaged rasps formerly in use.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
In a noisy inferno at Westinghouse's lamp factory in Bloomfield, N.J., a Unimate 2015G robot performs a process called "swaging."
From Time Magazine Archive
There's no denying that for utter precision and consistency, nothing beats a 125-ton computer-driven swaging machine hammering down on a barrel 1,600 times a minute.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rolling, forging, and swaging rooms are all connected, and form, as it were, one extended apartment.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various
An ingot of tungsten is subjected to vigorous swaging until it takes the form of a rod.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh
Fullering denotes the preliminary roughing-down of the material between tools having convex edges; swaging, the completion or finishing process between swages, or dies of definite shape, nearly hemispherical in form.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
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