Swage
//ˈsweɪd͡ʒ// noun, verb
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for shaping of a metal item.
""I made a swage and hammered out the test bars to the required .615 inch plus or minus .003, the thickness of a sheet of paper. […]"
- 2 a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging wordnet
Verb
- 1 To bend or shape through use of a swage. transitive
- 2 Obsolete form of assuage. alt-of, obsolete
"apt words have power to swage"
- 3 form metals with a swage wordnet
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples""I made a swage and hammered out the test bars to the required .615 inch plus or minus .003, the thickness of a sheet of paper. […]"
Etymology
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle English swage, from Old French souage (“decorative groove”), from soue (“rope”), from Vulgar Latin *soca, from Gaulish *souca (“cord”), from Proto-Celtic *soukā, from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to twist, bend”).
Etymology 2
From assuage by aphesis.
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