: a tool used by metalworkers for shaping their work by holding it on the work or the work on it and striking with a hammer or sledge
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Jeff Jackson, Outside Online, 28 July 2022
The tracks for the sliding doors are baked into the tail light-to-tail lamp swage lines, which also visually minimize the door handles.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
Bryce M. Towsley, Field & Stream, 23 June 2020
Noun
Littler than the swage sleeve on a #1 micro Stopper.
—Jeff Jackson, Outside Online, 28 July 2022
The tracks for the sliding doors are baked into the tail light-to-tail lamp swage lines, which also visually minimize the door handles.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
Verb
There are a multitude of tools to ream or swage the crimp out of the primer pocket.
—Bryce M. Towsley, Field & Stream, 23 June 2020
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“Swage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swage. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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