Forge

Forge
This interesting name is of early Medieval English and French origin, and is a topographical name for someone who lived near a forge or a smithy. The surname derives from the Middle English and Old French word 'forge', from the Latin 'fabrica', workshop, a derivative of 'faber', workman. In many cases the surname would have come to be used to mean the smith himself or his assistants and servants, by indirect association. There are no particular variants of the English surname, unusually, but a number of French ones, such as 'Forgue', 'Farge(s)' and the diminutive 'Forgette', 'Fargton' and 'Farjon'. One Mary Forge was christened at Cranbrook in Kent on the 27th October 1560, and William Forge married Marye Marrett at St. Botolph's, Bishopgate, London on the 2nd July, 1573. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Ralph del Forge, which was dated 1297, The Coram Regius Rolls, Yorkshire, during the reign of King Edward 1, 'The Hammer of the Scots', 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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Synonyms:
(for heavy work), , (metal), , (by heating and hammering), , / (to make iron more malleable), , , , , / , ,


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  • forge — forge …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • forgé — forgé …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • forge — [ fɔrʒ ] n. f. • XIIe aussi faverge; provenç. faurga, du lat. fabrica « atelier » 1 ♦ Cour. Atelier où l on travaille les métaux au feu et au marteau. Artisans, ouvriers d une forge. ⇒ forgeron. Forge d orfèvre, de serrurier. Forge de maréchal… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Forge — (f[=o]rj), n. [F. forge, fr. L. fabrica the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan, smith, as adj., skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. ? soft, tender. Cf. {Fabric}.] 1. A place or establishment where iron or other metals… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • forge — [fɔːdʒ ǁ fɔːrdʒ] verb [transitive] 1. LAW to produce a document or money that is not Genuine (= real), or to sign something with a false name: • They had forged some company documents and set up phoney ( …   Financial and business terms

  • forge — FORGE. s. f. Lieu où l on fond le fer, quand il est tiré de la mine, & où on le met en barre. Forge de fer. faire aller une forge. entretenir une forge. le fourneau d une forge. les soufflets d une forge. les forges sont d une grande despense.… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Forge — ist der Name folgender Personen: Andrew Forge (1923–2002), englischer Künstler Jean Forge, Pseudonym von Jan Fethke (1903–1980), deutsch polnischer Filmregisseur Forge bezeichnet folgende Orte: La Forge, Gemeinde im französischen Département… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Forge — Forge, v. i. [See {Forge}, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. {Forge} compel.] 1. To commit forgery. [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one s way, as one ship in outsailing another; used… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • forgé — forgé, ée (for jé, jée) part. passé de forger. 1°   Travaillé à la forge. Fer forgé. 2°   Fig. Un mot forgé, mot inventé, fabriqué.    Écrit forgé, écrit supposé, qui porte une fausse attribution. •   Il [Charles XII] les appela médiateurs… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • forge — ‘make’ [13] and forge ahead [17] are two quite distinct and unrelated words in English. The former’s now common connotation of ‘faking’ is in fact a purely English development (dating from the late 14th century) in a word whose relatives in other …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • forge — forge·a·bil·i·ty; forge·able; forge·man; forge; re·forge; …   English syllables

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