▪ I. † swaged, ppl. a.1 Obs.
[f. swage v.1 + -ed1.]
Reduced, restrained.
| a 1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. Pref. (1618) 13 They can put no difference betweene a swelling and swaged speech, betweene an honest homely stile, and that which is pricked and pranked vp. |
▪ II. swaged, ppl. a.2
(sweɪdʒd)
[f. swage n.2 and v.3 + -ed.]
† 1. Having a swage or ornamental groove, moulding, etc. Obs.
| 1487 in Surrey Archæ ol. Coll. III. 164, I bequeathe to said Elizabeth my daughter..ii gobletts of silver swaged. 1490 in Somerset Med. Wills (1901) 292, 3 bollyd peces swagid. 1535 in Strype Mem. Cranmer (1694) App. xvi. 27 Three standing Cups; one plain, and other two swaged with their Covers of silver and gilt. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 157 At the nether ende were two broade arches vpon thre antike pillers all of gold, burnished swaged and grauen full of Gargills and Serpentes. |
2. Shaped with a swage.
| 1842 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. V. 286/2 If we only take the trouble to anneal such a swaged axle after it has received the most severe compression. 1859 F. S. Cooper Ironmongers' Catal. 169 Candlesticks, Plain Round..Swaged..Plain Oblong. 1894 Times 16 Aug. 6/3 Hammered moulds or swaged steel. |