SWAGE
\swˈad͡ʒ], \swˈadʒ], \s_w_ˈa_dʒ]\
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a tool used to thicken or spread (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
By Princeton University
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A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge.
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To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A tool or die for imparting a given shape to metal when laid hot on an anvil or in a press or when cold.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. A tool used by workers in metals for shaping their work ; a kind of mould of which there are usually two, an under mould into which the heated metal is put, and an upper one which is hammered down over it till the two meet and the casting is made :-also swadge.
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