swage
Americannoun
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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
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 Rose, Joshua
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 Flom, George Tobias
In some cases, for small work, the upper swage is guided by the lower one: thus, in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
For large hand-made forgings the swage block, such as in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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 Piper, H. Beam
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 Rose, Joshua
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 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
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 Rose, Joshua
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 Rose, Joshua
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 Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
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 Rose, Joshua
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
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 Rose, Joshua
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
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 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
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
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