forging
English edit
Verb edit
forging
- present participle and gerund of forge
Noun edit
forging (countable and uncountable, plural forgings)
- 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 […]
- (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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forging
- Alternative form of forgynge