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Swage

noun
1.
A tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging.  Synonym: upset.
verb
(past & past part. swaged; pres. part. swaging)
1.
Form metals with a swage.  Synonym: upset.



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"Swage" Quotes from Famous Books



... it. Three things there be which thou shouldst only crave, Thou Pomroy or thou apple of mine eye; Three things there be which thou shouldst long to have And for which three each modest dame wood crie; Three things there be that shood thine anger swage, An English mastife and ...
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III • Various
... at peacock twixt my leggs right blythe, And doeth my tickling swage with manie a sighe. For, by saint Runnion! he'le refresh me well; And neuer make ...
— The Choise of Valentines - Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo • Thomas Nash
... quench your rage, Once more I will endeavour: This water shall your fury 'swage, Or else it ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... and fresh the poole renues, As Spring and drowth encrease or swage: Where boat presents his seruice prest, And net becomes ...
— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew


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