[f. SWAGE sb.2 Cf. SWEDGE v.] trans. To shape or bend by means of a swage.
1831. J. Holland, Manuf. Metal, I. ix. 141. The article being thus hammered, is next pared with shears to the shape required, after which it is swaged or turned up at the edges.
1832, 1854. [see SWAGE sb.2 b].
1838. F. W. Simms, Pub. Wks. Gt. Brit., 48. The bolt to be swaged and made truly cylindrical.
1877. W. Jones, Finger-ring, 266. A ring … found at Fransham, has the hoop swaged or twisted.
1904. Times, 20 Aug., 7/6. The sectional poles shall be … swaged together when hot so as to make a perfect joint.
