forging

English

Verb

forging

1. present participle and gerund of forge

Noun

forging (countable and uncountable, plural forgings)

1. 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 […]

2. (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.

Derived terms

• drop forging
• nanoforging

Middle English

Noun

forging

1. alternative form of forgynge