iron foundingn.
/ˈʌɪən ˌfaʊndɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈaɪ(ə)rn ˌfaʊndɪŋ/ The process, craft, or industry of founding or casting iron.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > founding or casting > types of
iron founding1793
bronze founding1869
chill-casting1879
die-casting1911
core-casting1928
slush casting1930
sand casting1939
gravity die-casting1940
investment casting1946
slipforming1968
pressure casting1973
1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 278 The distillery of malt spirits, brewing of ale, malting, candle making, and iron founding, are the only manufactures of consequence carried on at Airdrie.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxiii. 114 Iron-founding on a small scale; manufacturing of axes, adzes, steel-mills, and sundry other strong iron tools and utensils.
1868 Putnam's Mag. May 607/2 There are various departments for which her physical inferiority would seem to render her entirely unfit—such as agriculture, iron-founding, rail-laying, and trench-digging.
1920 Good Furnit. Mag. June 246/1 Knowledge of iron founding finally became more important than a thorough apprenticeship in joining and cabinet-making.
1969 Surv. Iron Castings (Council Ironfoundry Assoc.) Introd. 1/2 The broad division of ironfounding into the mass-production field and into the more craft-based, smaller-quantity field.
1983 New Scientist 14 July 94/1 Scrap steel is a basic ingredient of iron founding.
2003 Econ. Hist. Rev. 56 564 There was a little industry, notably potting at Potterspury and iron founding and chemicals at Deanshanger.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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