Noun: forge
| Singular | forge |
| Plural | forges |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Hambleden:]
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In the greater bodies the forge was easy. [1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]
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If the project uses a forge like GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search all past commit logs […] [2018, V. M. Brasseur, Forge Your Future with Open Source, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like forge
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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 Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric and fabrica. Partially displaced English smithy.
2. * Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999. See: Middle English Nouns '
forge', Latin Nouns '
fabrica'.