to swage
9.9
To shape metal by hammering or pressing its end to fit
- verb
- /sweɪdʒ/
- Specialized
:
moldar
- To create the custom fittings, the technician swaged the metal tubes together with precision.
Examples
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The blacksmith will swage the hot metal into the desired shape using a hammer.
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In other cases, each wire is pretensioned individually and a terminal is swaged on the end.
Academic text (2012) -
I'm never too cool or too swaged out to fucking do a great show.
Blog text (34) -
And I'm reading mess about "Oh, because he isn't hood or swaged out, he has to be gay?!" or "because he's an upstanding man, you think he's gay?".
Blog text (2) -
He learned to swage the ends of the metal rods to secure them properly in place.
Synonyms
1
9.9
Make the end of metal thicker by hammering or pressing
shapes metal by hammering or pressing without focusing on thickening
Compounds
swage block
- Specialized
9.9
A heavy iron block with holes and grooves that helps shape hot metal in a forge
How Shaped
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb swage comes from the same old word meaning 'to press' or 'to shape'. So to swage metal is simply to press or hammer it into a new shape.