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 we were to use a top and a bottom swage, as in Fig.
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
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
After each blow the work is revolved one-sixth of a revolution, and as the angles of the swage are true they obviously true the angles of the bolt head.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
This is performed by stamping both ends of each link at the same time between pairs of shaping dies or swages.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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