swedge

plural swedges

1. countableuncountableA tool (originally a bevelled chisel) for making grooves in horseshoes.
2. ScotlandslanguncountableThe drug MDMA.

present singular third person swedges · participle present swedging · participle past swedged · past swedged

1. To shape metal using a hammer or other force.

   We are now enabled to present the plan of a machine of the full size for swedging common nails to the shape above mentioned, and which may be operated successfully by small boys of 8 or 10 years, and who could make a fair business at half a cent per lb.

   1846, editorial staff, “NAIL SWEDGING MACHINE”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 97

2. colloquialTo leave (a restaurant etc.) without paying.
3. To fold under or round an object.

   He bound them into a neat packet, swedging down the stiff, sticky oilcloth at the corners..

   1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 14, in Kim