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Forge

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.

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Verb group 6

Hammer 84% connected

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

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Hammer 84% connected

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

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Process 84% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Process 84% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Work 84% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Work 84% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Advance 76% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Furnace 76% connected

An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking potter…

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Progress 76% connected

A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

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Re-create 76% connected

To create or form anew.

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Recreate 76% connected

To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to…

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Manner of action 29

Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Carve 76% connected

To cut.

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Cast 76% connected

of Cast

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Chip 76% connected

To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

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Coil 76% connected

To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

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Craft 76% connected

Strength; might; secret power.

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Foliate 76% connected

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.

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Grind 76% connected

To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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Hill 76% connected

A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.

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Layer 76% connected

One who, or that which, lays.

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Machine 76% connected

In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmi…

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Model 76% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Mold 76% connected

A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Mould 76% connected

Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

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Mound 76% connected

A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmount…

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Preform 76% connected

To form beforehand, or for special ends.

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Puddle 76% connected

A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.

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Remold 76% connected

Alt. of Remould

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Reshape 76% connected

To shape again.

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Roughcast 76% connected

To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.

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Sculpture 76% connected

The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, t…

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Sew 76% connected

Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.

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Sinter 76% connected

Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals.

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Stamp 76% connected

To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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Swage 76% connected

See Assuage.

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Tailor 76% connected

One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Tie 76% connected

A knot; a fastening.

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Upset 76% connected

To set up; to put upright.

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Derivationally related 14

Artificer 74% connected

An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.

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Artificer 74% connected

An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.

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Counterfeit 74% connected

Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.

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Counterfeit 74% connected

Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.

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Design 74% connected

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Design 74% connected

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Forger 74% connected

One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.

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Forger 74% connected

One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.

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Forging 74% connected

of Forge

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Forging 74% connected

of Forge

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Invention 74% connected

The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention…

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Invention 74% connected

The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention…

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Inventive 74% connected

Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius.

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Inventive 74% connected

Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius.

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Component part 1

Anvil 70% connected

An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

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Synonym 17

Contrive 92% connected

To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

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Counterfeit 92% connected

Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.

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Devise 92% connected

To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive;…

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Excogitate 92% connected

To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

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Fake 92% connected

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

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Fashion 92% connected

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house,…

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form 92% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Formulate 92% connected

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

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Hammer 92% connected

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

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Invent 92% connected

To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

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Mold 92% connected

A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Mould 92% connected

Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shape 92% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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Smithy 92% connected

The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy.

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Spirt 92% connected

Same as Spurt.

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Spurt 92% connected

To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.

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Work 92% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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