Forge is the workplace of a
smith or a blacksmith
?. It usually contains a hearth
? (for heating the metals), an anvil
? (for hammering the maellable metal pieces on) and a trough
? (in which to rapidly cool, and thus harden, forged metal pieces).
Forging is a term for heat treating metals until the metal becomes maellable enough to be hammered into shape, and the subsequent hammering.