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  • noun Plural form of forgeman.

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Examples

  • Any who walked its streets and byways felt Tarsis had the pulse of a port city-the drumbeat of voices in the marketplace, women shouting to children, potters at the whining wheel, dwarf forgemen shouting to be heard above their own anvils.

    Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

  • He had preached there, and knew the rough character of its colliers and forgemen.

    Fletcher of Madeley Brigadier Margaret Allen

  • I suppose there may have been a reason why a "gentleman" in those very class-aware days would have friends who were pitmen or forgemen.

    Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930

  • It was a picturesque sight to see the forgemen at work with the tilt hammers under the glowing light of the furnaces.

    James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

  • The nearest, and indeed, the only locality, within a distance of many miles, from whence the forgemen of Gloucester could have obtained their iron, was this neighbourhood.

    Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean 1846

  • This, of course, does not include the army of labourers dependent for their very existence upon the demand thus created for materials -- such as iron-smelters, forgemen, rivet-makers, &c.; nor those artisans employed alike on vessels of iron and timber -- such as painters, blacksmiths, blockmakers, riggers, and others.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 Various 1836

  • "He had a forge set up for himself," says Brantome, "and I have seen him forging cannon, and horseshoes, and other things as stoutly as the most robust farriers and forgemen."

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 1830

  • Smiths, millers, pewterers, forgemen, and armourers could never be able to live in the perpetual noise of their own trades, did it strike their ears with the same violence that it does ours.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • Smiths, millers, pewterers, forgemen, and armourers could never be able to live in the perpetual noise of their own trades, did it strike their ears with the same violence that it does ours.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 04 Michel de Montaigne 1562

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