/fo(ː)ɹd͡ʒ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
/foəd͡ʒ/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
Etymology
From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric and fabrica. Partially displaced English smithy.
* Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999.
Meanings
A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
Close to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Hambleden:
A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
The act of beating or working iron or steel.
In the greater bodies the forge was easy. 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […] 2018, V. M. Brasseur, Forge Your Future with Open Source, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:
/fo(ː)ɹd͡ʒ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
/foəd͡ʒ/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
Etymology
From Middle English forgen, from Anglo-Norman forger and Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”). Doublet of fabricate.
Meanings
To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft. 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 451:
To form or create with concerted effort.
O purblind race of miserable men, / How many among us at this very hour / Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. / By taking true for false, or false for true. 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 45–46:
Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
In The Last Guardian, a kidnapped boy forges an uneasy relationship with a frightening beast in order to survive. 2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian:
The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.
To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
He had to forge his ex-wife's signature. The jury learned the documents had been forged.
To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you. 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
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/fo(ː)ɹd͡ʒ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
/foəd͡ʒ/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
Etymology
Make way, move ahead, most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in reference to vessels.
Meanings
(intransitive) To move forward slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily, especially in the face of resistance or difficulty.
The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.
And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. 1849, Thomas De Quincey, “Dream-Fugue”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
Let's forge past that runner on the inside.
With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.
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