swage

/ˈswāj/

Middle English, ornamental border, from Middle French souage

noun

  1. a tool used by metalworkers for shaping their work by holding it on the work or the work on it and striking with a hammer or sledge

verb

  1. to shape by or as if by means of a swage

noun

  1. a perforated cast-iron or steel block with grooved sides that is used in heading bolts and swaging bars by hand