swage

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

• To bend or shape through use of a swage.

Origin

• From Old French souage ("decorative groove"), from soue, from Vulgar Latin *soca, from Gaulish *souca ("cord"), from Proto-Celtic *soca, from Proto-Indo-European *seu ("to twist, bend").
• From assuage by aphesis.