swage

Plural: swages

Noun

a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for shaping of a metal item.

Verb

Verb Forms: swaged, swaging, swages

To shape metal by hammering or pressing with a tool.
form metals with a swage
To bend or shape through use of a swage.
Obsolete form of assuage.

Examples

He tried to swage the letters on his rack into a coherent word, but they resisted.

Origin / Etymology

Inherited from Middle English swage, from Old French souage (“decorative groove”), from soue (“rope”), from Vulgar Latin *soca, from Gaulish *souca (“cord”), from Proto-Celtic *soukā, from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to twist, bend”).

Synonyms

upset

Scrabble Score: 9

swage: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
swage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
swage: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

swage: valid Words With Friends Word