forge

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To advance gradually but steadily.
• intransitive verb To advance with an abrupt increase of speed.
• noun A furnace or hearth where metals are heated or wrought; a smithy.
• noun A workshop where pig iron is transformed into wrought iron.
• intransitive verb To form (metal, for example) by heating in a forge and beating or hammering into shape.
• intransitive verb To form (metal) by a mechanical or hydraulic press.
• intransitive verb To give form or shape to, especially by means of careful effort.
• intransitive verb To fashion or reproduce for fraudulent purposes; counterfeit.
• intransitive verb To work at a forge or smithy.
• intransitive verb To make a forgery or counterfeit.

from The Century Dictionary.

• In farriery, to strike the heel of the front shoe with the toe of the hind shoe, producing a clicking sound.
• 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.
• noun In general, a place where anything is made, shaped, or devised; a workshop.
• noun 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.
• noun A smithy or works where forging is done.
• noun Any large iron-working shop.
• noun The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of objects in metal.
• noun A sort of hearth or furnace in which malleable iron is made directly from the ore, by the so-called “direct process.”
• 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.
• noun The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
• noun obsolete The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies.
• noun a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously.
• noun (Metal.) See under Catalan.
• noun the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary.
• noun the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars.
• noun (Mil.) a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools.
• noun a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.
• transitive verb To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
• transitive verb To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
• transitive verb obsolete To coin.
• transitive verb To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.
• intransitive verb To commit forgery.
• intransitive verb (Naut.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead.
• transitive verb (Naut.) To impel forward slowly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
• noun Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
• verb metallurgy To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
• verb To form or create with concerted effort.
• verb To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
• verb To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
• verb To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb move ahead steadily