FORGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forging mean? 

• FORGING (noun)
  The noun FORGING has 1 sense:

1. shaping metal by heating and hammering

  Familiarity information: FORGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shaping metal by heating and hammering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("forging" is a kind of...):

formation; shaping (the act of fabricating something in a particular shape)

Derivation:

forge (create by hammering)

 Context examples 

It's like a medieval cauldron forging stars.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

We were out of the Trades, and the Ghost was forging ahead barely a knot an hour.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"But where is the use of going on," I asked, "when you are probably preparing some iron blow of contradiction, or forging a fresh chain to fetter your heart?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star-gazing, poisoning, whoring, canting, libelling, freethinking, and the like occupations: every one of which terms I was at much pains to make him understand.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)