Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A maker of brass or of articles cast in brass.
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Examples
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Hewson was at work as a brass-founder; and though no employment disfigures a workman more with smoke and dust than the process of casting, the quick eye of Nelson recognized in the caster an old associate.
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Sax, the great brass-founder, who made the Last Trumpets for the 'Wandering Jew,' and the instruments for the Band of the Guides, is engaged upon the frogpipes required.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The handicraft man, for instance, the sandal-maker, or the leather-cutter, or the brass-founder, or any other artificer, -- when he sells any article of his trade, let him give the first-fruits of its price unto God: let him cast in a small portion here, and assign something to God out of his portion, though it be rather scanty [342].
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
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Their son learned the business of a machinist and brass-founder, and emigrated to America in 1800.
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When Perillos, the brass-founder of Athens, brought to him a brazen bull, and told the tyrant it was intended for the punishment of criminals, Phalăris inquired into its merits.
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Baudoyer, and his daughter, Elisabeth, Baudoyer's wife, were playing a virtuous game of boston with their confessor, the Abbe Gaudron, in company with a few neighbors and a certain Martin Falleix, a brass-founder in the fauborg Saint-Antoine, to whom Saillard had loaned the necessary money to establish a business.
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I shall not enquire whose grandfather was the first brass-founder here, but shall leave their grandsons to settle that important point with my successor who shall next write the History of Birmingham.
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