单词 | typefounder |
释义 | > as lemmastype-founder a. One who founds or casts metal, or makes articles of cast metal. Often in combination, with the metal or article specified, as bell-founder, type-founder.See also ironfounder n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > caster or founder yettereOE metal yetterc1400 founder1402 wellera1425 caster1535 1402 in Rot. Parl. III. 520 Bartilmew Dekene, Founder. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Jer. vi. 29 The lead is consumed in the fyre: the founder melteth in vaine. 1637 Decree Starre-Chamber conc. Printing xxvii. sig. G4v That there shall be foure Founders of letters for printing allowed. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. iii. 334 Founders add a little [antimony] to their Bell-Metal, to make it more sonorous. 1705 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 581 Her majesties founder has orders to cast 60 heavy cannon. 1724 J. Swift Let. to Mr. Harding 6 Let Mr. Woods and his Crew of Founders and Tinkers Coyn on. 1892 Labour Commission Gloss. (at cited word) Master founders are the owners or managers of a foundry for making iron or brass castings. type-founder type-founder n. ΚΠ 1797 M. L. Weems Let. 13 July in Ford's M. L. Weems: Wks. & Ways (1929) II. 84 A letter was written..containing an order on Mr. Baine the Type Founder for some money. 1801 Philos. Mag. 10 270 A new art, that of the type-founder. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. iii. 349 A heavy assortment of great and small pica, newly arrived from the type-founder. < as lemmas |
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