Forge

Definitions

1. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
2. A surname from Old French.
3. A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
4. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
5. A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.

Equivalents

Examples

“Close⟳ to the hump-backed bridge on the lane leading into the Hambleden Valley is a mid-19th-century smithy, its inside walls hung with tools of the blacksmith's trade⟳, though decorative wrought-ironwork is now the main product from its glowing forge.”

“In the greater bodies the forge was easy.”

“If the project uses a forge like⟳ GitLab, GitHub, or BitBucket, it can be very easy to search⟳ all past commit logs […]”

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