forging

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Verb

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forging

  1. present participle and gerund of forge

Noun

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forging (countable and uncountable, plural forgings)

  1. The process of shaping by heating and hammering.
    • 1868, Francis Herbert Joynson, The Metals Used in Construction: Iron, Steel, Bessemer Metal, page 68:
      [] repeated forgings and workings of wrought-iron []
  2. (countable) A component that is forged (shaped by heating and hammering).
    • 1896, United States, Annual report of the Secretary of War:
      [] one set of 16-inch steel gun forgings []
    • 1944 July and August, “British-Built Austerity 2-10-0 Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, pages 222, 225:
      Fabrication has been the method used in the construction of many components that would normally be made from steel castings and forgings.

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Noun

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forging

  1. Alternative form of forgynge