Swage

Word SWAGE
Character 5
Hyphenation swage
Pronunciations /ˈsweɪdʒ/

Definitions and meanings of "Swage"

What do we mean by swage?

A tool used in bending or shaping cold metal. noun

A stamp or die for marking or shaping metal with a hammer. noun

A swage block. noun

To bend or shape by or as if by using a swage. transitive verb

See suage.

A tool or die for imparting a given shape to metal when laid hot on an anvil, or in a stamping-press or drop-press, or between rolls. noun

A similar tool used for bending or twisting cold metal slightly, as for setting saws by bending one tooth at a time to the proper angle, or, in the making of vessels of tin-plate, for bending the metal slightly. noun

To shape by means of a swage. Also swedge.

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. noun

A perforated block of iron, having grooved sides and adapted for use in heading bolts and swaging objects of large size. noun

See assuage. verb

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. transitive verb

A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for cold shaping of a metal item. noun

To bend or shape through use of a swage. verb

Form metals with a swage verb

A tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging noun

A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for cold shaping of a metal item.

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The word "swage" in example sentences

They want a bore that looks like a hollow log or a sewing needle swage. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yes | No | Report from losy my zero wrote 1 year 42 weeks ago rock chuck bullet swage by fred huntingdon. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He heats the first rivet, then drives it through the brace until it flattens against the round-bottomed swage. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1994)

The striker brings down the hammer on the swage-once, twice. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1994)

Yarrl watches the iron until it reaches cherry red, then deftly turns it onto the bottom swage set in the anvil's hardie hole. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1994)

"Going to be a long winter -" Yarrl lifts the tongs and slides the partly forged clamp from the bricks into the fire, reaching for the midsized swage as he does so. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1994)

A quick stroke flattens the bottom side against the swage, and Dorrin follows up with another set of glancing strokes, first on the top, and then on the bottom. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1994)

Next, using glancing blows on the end of the fullered rod, he begins to upset the end that will fit into the swage die. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1994)

When the cross-section matches the template, he sets the circular die-almost like a round-bottom swage with a square base-into the anvil's hardie hole, and places the metal in the forge once more. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1994)

In time he removes the piece and places it in the end curve in the swage block. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1994)

Using the block is harder than using a hammer-driven swage, but is the only way he can shape the iron single-handedly. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1994)

Rounding may also be performed over bending dies on swage blocks. ❋ B. Zierenberg (1990)

Figure 48 Rounding of round sections on the swage block 1 swage block, 2 bracing, 3 dogs ❋ B. Zierenberg (1990)

And this is the hardie hole, where I rest the butt of the fuller and the flatter and the swage. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1989)

Fig. 9_a_ is a plan of the bottom swage of the tool for performing the ninth operation, the upper swage corresponding thereto at least in so far as the middle part of the link to be operated on is concerned. ❋ Various (N/A)

O ryght fayre lady of grene flourynge age you can not do but as your frendes agre your wyte is grete/you mekenes/dooth not swage ❋ Stephen Hawes (N/A)

"No, ma'am," replied the little petitioner, humbly; "it is something that is liable to swage him down and pacify him a right smart." ❋ Unknown (1912)

BUTCHER KNIFE -- This knife has an 8-inch swage blade, cocobola handle; best grade. ❋ R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (1902)

'Gan swage their cares, mindless of travails past. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

The car's dynamic character is further underlined by a fresh expression of Opel's signature blade motif, now a swooping swage line from the base of the C-pillar into the lower front fender. ❋ John Neff (2010)

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