forge
noun/fɔːdʒ/
/fɔːrdʒ/
- a place where objects are made by heating and shaping pieces of metal, especially one where a blacksmith works
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- a large piece of equipment used for heating metals in; a building or part of a factory where this is found
Word Originnoun Middle English (also in the general sense ‘make, construct’): from Old French forger, from Latin fabricare ‘fabricate’, from fabrica ‘manufactured object, workshop’. The noun is via Old French from Latin fabrica.
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