Skip to content
ARCHIEENGLISH
LearnPlayWordsRanking
  • Learn
  • Play
  • Words
  • Ranking
  • Mine
← Vocabulary

forging

nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,157 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: forgings

Forging is metal shaped by hammering while hot. A forged crankshaft, drop forging, the forging process.

Hammering does not merely shape the metal, it aligns the grain, which is why a forged part is stronger than a cast or machined one of the same steel and why aircraft and engine parts are made this way. It is also the making of a fake document.

Rainer Halama · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of forging

  1. 1nounforgingMetal shaped by hammering while hot.C1

    “The blacksmith inspected each forging for cracks before it left the workshop.”

forging is a process.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    fabrica — workshop

  2. Old French

    forge

  3. Middle English

    forge

  4. English

    forge

  5. English, today

    forging

Built from

  • faber · Latin — workman in hard materials, smith

forge comes 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 frp favèrge. a doublet of fabric and fabrica. Partially displaced smithy.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Factory & Manufacturing

Practise this word

forging in the wild

  • The fuller is a forging tool used to spread metal.

    Fuller (metalworking)

  • "Fullering," more generally, refers to any forging process that creates a sharp transition in the cross-section of the material.

    Fuller (metalworking)

  • A steam hammer, also called a drop hammer, is an industrial power hammer driven by steam that is used for tasks such as shaping forgings and driving piles.

    Steam hammer

  • In the 20th century steam hammers were gradually displaced in forging by mechanical and hydraulic presses, but some are still in use.

    Steam hammer

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the forge family

forgeforging

forging — used about once every 4,294 pages · #9,157 · point at the bar for the others