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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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
Tell them that they may swiftly swage their fears, Safe in the mercy I by rule extend To vanquished ones.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
The bolt may require passing from the heading tool to the swage several times, as forging it in one direction spreads it in another.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Spring set is given either by bending, or by hammer blows, and swage set either by blows or by compression.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
O. N. ai > ē, written a, ai, ay, ei: bait, bein, bayt, blaik, dey, grane, graip, graith, heid, laif, lairet, lairing, lak, laiching, thwaite, waith, slaik, swage, raise, tha.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
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
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
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
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
In the case of trip hammers, steam hammers, &c., blocks fitted to the hammer and anvil block may take the place of detached swages and fullers.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
It is then ground in the same manner as the barrel, and the hammer is swaged on by two operations under the drop.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various
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 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
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
Metallic swaged plates were introduced in the latter part of the 18th century.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
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
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
Frequently swaging is practised at once, without the preliminary detail of fullering.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
A practical hand-book on filing, gumming, swaging, hammering, and the brazing of band saws, the speed, work, and power to run circular saws, etc.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
The ends are upset or enlarged in order to leave enough metal to be dressed down flush, by swaging or by flattering.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
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