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drop forging: ► definition

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a forging process where a hammer is raised and then "dropped" onto the workpiece to deform it according to the shape of the die.

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[...] Milo was attacking the squadron again, and he rolled off his cot to the floor and lay underneath in a trembling, praying ball, his heart thumping like a drop forge, his body bathed in cold sweat.

Joseph Heller. Catch-22, pp.360-1 (1961)

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Catch-22 vocabulary

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drop forging

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