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Extend :: Extend (v. t.) To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them..

Bloom :: Bloom (n.) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working..

Plate :: Plate (v. t.) To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping..

Dress :: Dress (v. t.) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish..

Forge :: Forge (n.) 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..

Beetle :: Beetle (v. t.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine..

Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end..

Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends..

Repousse :: Repousse (a.) Ornamented with patterns in relief made by pressing or hammering on the reverse side; -- said of thin metal, or of a vessel made of thin metal..

Drawing :: Drawing (n.) The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies..

Beetle :: Beetle (v. t.) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods..

Porter :: Porter (n.) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar..

Raising :: Raising (n.) The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning..

Use :: Use (v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging..

Fagot :: Fagot (n.) A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.

Shingling :: Shingling (n.) The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron..

Puddle-bar :: Puddle-bar (n.) An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.

Spall :: Spall (v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering..

Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly..

Forge :: Forge (n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal..

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