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Swage

//ˈsweɪd͡ʒ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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. 1
    To bend or shape through use of a swage. transitive
  2. 2
    Obsolete form of assuage. alt-of, obsolete

    "apt words have power to swage"

  3. 3
    form metals with a swage wordnet

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

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 3

From assuage by aphesis.

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