forge

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   move ahead steadily

   Despite the bad weather, we decided to continue to forge along the path.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of beating or working iron or steel.

   In the greater bodies the forge was easy.

4. 4
   noun

   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 […]

5. 5
   verb

   To shape a metal by heating and hammering.

   On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne

6. 6
   verb

   To form or create with concerted effort.

   The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.

7. 7
   verb

   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.

8. 8
   verb

   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.

Etymology

From Old French forge (“forge, furnace”), a surname for someone who lived near or worked in a forge or smithy.