forger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who fraudulently makes or alters documents, money, art, or other objects

   The forger copied the artist's signature but used a modern pigment.

2. 2
   noun

   a worker who shapes metal by heating and hammering it in a forge

   The forger shaped the heated iron before passing it to the smith for finishing.

From Middle English forger and Old French forgier, an agent noun related to forge. The metalworking sense is literal; the fraud sense arose from the idea of fashioning or fabricating something false.

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