Sentence examples for forging iron from inspiring English sources

At stations surrounding the work site, they tried carving stone, making rope and forging iron.

This was a "hammer pond", dammed to power a water wheel for forging iron in the 16th century.

They were subsequently adopted to drive sawmills and pumps, to provide the bellows action for furnaces and forges, to drive tilt hammers or trip-hammers for forging iron, and to provide direct mechanical power for textile mills.

A few Belgic firedogs and at least one amphora, skillfully forged in iron, with decorative terminals in the form of animal heads, are known; but the practice of forging iron into decorative shapes does not seem to have become general until the Middle Ages.

"Together we went to exhibitions, model engineering shows and craft fairs," he recalls in his book, Making, co-written with his former partner, Maisie Rowe, "spending time with people who were forging iron, blowing glass, machining metal, erecting timber building frames, knotting hammocks, laying hedges, making sheep fences and constructing dry-stone walls".

Here and there, craftsmen show off their skills, throwing pots or forging iron.

He added, "To forge iron, one must be strong".

"To forge iron," he said, "one must be strong".

"To forge iron you need a strong body," he said, exhorting officials.

Descending belowground early, full of milk and blood and meat, to forge iron.

His phrasing was as supple as it was muscular, the lines shaped like forged iron.