Fed gossip about rejected column — it's possibly forged? (9)
I believe the answer is:
metalwork
'fed' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how they can define each other.
I don't understand the remainder of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for metalwork that I've seen before include "Creative manipulation of iron, tin etc" , "school subject, once" , "processing of gold maybe" , "Objects of gold, iron, copper etc" .)