n. In general, a place where anything is made, shaped, or devised; a workshop.n. Specifically An open fireplace or furnace, fitted with a bellows or some other appliance for obtaining a blast to urge the fire, and serving to heat metal in order that it may be hammered into form.n. A smithy or works where forging is done.n. Any large iron-working shop.n. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of objects in metal.n. A sort of hearth or furnace in which malleable iron is made directly from the ore, by the so-called “direct process.”To form by heating in a forge and hammering; beat into some particular shape, as a mass of metal.To form or shape out in any way; make by any means; invent.To fabricate by false imitation; specifically, in law, to make a false instrument (including every alteration of or addition to a true instrument) in similitude of an instrument by which one person could be obligated to another, with criminal intent, for the purpose of fraud and deceit: as, to forge coin; to forge a writing.Synonyms To hammer out.To fabricate, frame, manufacture, coin.To commit forgery.To move ahead slowly, with difficulty, or by mere momentum: said properly of a vessel, but also of other things: commonly with ahead. See ahead.In farriery, to strike the heel of the front shoe with the toe of the hind shoe, producing a clicking sound.