资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Portable \Port"a*ble\, a. [L. portabilis, fr. portare to carry:
   cf. F. portable. See {Port} demeanor.]
   1. Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported;
      conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk,
      engine. --South.

   2. Possible to be endured; supportable. [Obs.]

            How light and portable my pain seems now! --Shak.

   {Portable forge}. See under {Forge}.

   {Portable steam engine}. See under {Steam engine}.

Forge \Forge\, n. [F. forge, fr. L. fabrica the workshop of an
   artisan who works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan,
   smith, as adj., skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. ? soft, tender.
   Cf. {Fabric}.]
   1. A place or establishment where iron or other metals are
      wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace,
      or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and
      wrought; a smithy.

            In the quick forge and working house of thought.
                                                  --Shak.

   2. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the
      ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and
      shingling; a shingling mill.

   3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the
      manufacture of metalic bodies. [Obs.]

            In the greater bodies the forge was easy. --Bacon.

   {American forge}, a forge for the direct production of
      wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly
      in using finely crushed ore and working continuously.
      --Raymond.

   {Catalan forge}. (Metal.) See under {Catalan}.

   {Forge cinder}, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary.
      

   {Forge rolls}, {Forge train}, the train of rolls by which a
      bloom is converted into puddle bars.

   {Forge wagon} (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a
      blackmith's forge and tools.

   {Portable forge}, a light and compact blacksmith's forge,
      with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.