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forge

Pronunciation: /fɔʁʒ/

“forge” is a French word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. forge (workshop)
  2. forge (furnace)

In French

  1. Usine dans laquelle la fonte de fer est transformée en métal.
  2. Haut-fourneau où le minerai est réduit en fonte.
  3. Fourneau, atelier où les métaux se travaillent au feu et au marteau.
  4. Métier ou industrie de la transformation des métaux.
  5. Atelier d’un maréchal-ferrant.
  6. Pierre de liais sur laquelle on bat le plomb à froid.

Etymology

Inherited from Old French forge, from earlier faverge, inherited from Latin fābrica. Doublet of fabrique, which was borrowed.

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