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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

forge1 smithy XIV; furnace for melting metal XVII. — (O)F. :- Rom, *faurga :- L. fabrica trade, manufactured object, workshop, forge (see FABRIC).
So vb. shape, fashion (now only in a forge) XIII; fabricate, make a fraudulent imitation of XIV. Hence forger XIV, forgery XVI.

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