SWAGE
- tool for bending cold metal to a required shape
- to shape with a hammering tool [v SWAGED, SWAGES, SWAGING]
- tool, die, or stamp for giving a particular shape to metal on an anvil, in a stamping press, etc.
- iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil
- to bend or shape by means of a swage
- to reduce or taper (an object), as by forging or squeezing