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The manager or overseer of an iron foundry or ironworks; a manufacturer of iron, esp. on a large scale.
one having charge or ownership of a forge; also figurative.
One who forges (metal) or works at a forge; a smith; †a coiner (of money); also, an owner of forges or rolling mills.