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foundry|ˈfaʊndrɪ|
Forms: 7 fondary, -ery, founderie, 8 -ary, 8–9 -ery, 9 foundry.
[a. F. fond(e)rie, f. fondre: see found v.3]
1. The art or business of founding or casting metal; concr. founders' work, castings.
1601Holland Pliny II. 565 This art of grauing images in stone is of greater antiquitie by farre, than..founderie and casting statues. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §279 note, The ingenious Mr. Prickett, to whom the Iron Foundery of this kingdom owes much. 1890Daily News 6 Jan. 2/3 Cut nails are advanced..and a similar run is declared in heavy iron foundry, mill-rolls, wheels, etc.
2. An establishment or building in which founding of metal or glass is carried on.
1645Evelyn Mem. (1819) I. 194 The founderie where they cast ordinance. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) I. 258 This man..dwelt near an English foundery in Glengary. 1853Ure Dict. Arts I. 915 (art. Glass-making). 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am xliii, Fellow-workmen together in the same foundry.
fig.1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) I. 320 Thus I contend with fancy and opinion; and search the mint and foundery of imagination. 1794Sullivan View Nat. IV. 249 The nursery of irresistible legions, the foundary of the human race.
†b. (See quots.) Obs.
1670–98R. Lassels Voy. Italy I. 3 The Fondaries or Stilling-Houses of the Great Duke of Florence. 1674Blount Glossogr., Fondery (Fr.) a Stilling-house.
3. attrib. and Comb., as foundry-coke, foundry-furnace, foundry-goods, foundry-man; foundry-iron, iron containing sufficient carbon to make it suitable for castings; foundry-proof, the final proof before stereotyping or electrotyping (Jacobi).
1892Daily News 6 Aug. 8/6 Wanted by Colliery Proprietors, an Agent, to sell *foundry coke.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. IV. 355 *Foundry Furnace..Reverberating and blast furnaces.
1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 71 That endless variety of smaller and generally useful articles, denominated *foundery goods.
1863Robson Bards of Tyne 357 He..keeps 'a the *foundrymen starvin' till neet. |