swage block

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   an iron block cut with holes and grooves to assist in cold working metal

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Questions about swage block

What does swage block mean?

swage block means "an iron block cut with holes and grooves to assist in cold working metal".

Is swage block a common word?

swage block is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.