Also 7 forchet, (forge,) 9 forchette, forget(te, forgit. [originally forchet, a. F. fourchette of same meaning, lit. ‘fork.’] Glove-making: (see quots.)
1681. Minutes, Glover Incorp. Perth, in Beck, Gloves (1883), 153. The Calling also enacts that no Gloves be made with tard forchets but allenerly with Cliven forchets.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 18/1. The Forges, the peeces between the Fingers.
1862. Mrs. H. Wood, Mrs. Hallib., I. xxiii. 282. The long strips, running up inside the fingers, are the forgits.
1891. Ada Heather-Bigg, Women and the Glove Trade, in 19th Cent., XXX. Dec., 939. They, too, punch out the glove-shapes, the pieces for the thumbs, and the forgets—i.e. the little side pieces of the fingers.
