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ˈiron-ˌfounder
[f. iron n.1 + founder n.3]
One who founds or casts iron.
1817Coleridge Lay Serm. 393 The ship-builder, the clothier, the iron-founder. 1897Daily News 6 Dec. 11/5 Heavy ironfounders continue well employed.
So ˈiron-ˌfounding; ˈiron-ˌfoundry: see foundry 1, 2.
1784Morgan in Phil. Trans. LXXV. 198 The furnace of an iron foundery. 1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 106 Iron-founding on a small scale; manufacturing of axes, adzes, steel-mills, and sundry other strong iron tools and utensils. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xxiv. (ed. 3) 239 The gases issuing from the chimnies of iron-foundries. 1895Daily News 21 Jan. 9/1 It has imparted a stimulus to business in plumbers' ironfoundry. |