Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
foundry .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
foundry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
foundry .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On the back of the village there is a foundery for casting iron; at a little distance on the river there is a cataract, not quite so high as the Feloups.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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She looked towards the western sky, which was now aglow like some vast foundery wherein new worlds were being cast.
The Woodlanders 2006
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In the town, which comprises half a dozen houses and an old foundery, the answer is, 'The rebels has eat us all out.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Again we draw from the same source -- this time, the description of a visit paid by a company of grand folks, of whom the writer of the letter was one, to an iron-foundery: --
Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
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Leggett's Hill from which he could look over the rebel parapet, and see the high smoke-stack of a large foundery in Atlanta; that before receiving my order he had diverted Dodge's two divisions
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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It has about eighteen thousand inhabitants, and has a foundery for ordnance.
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The foundery, with its steam hammer and other appliances, for his navy, consisting of several steamers purchased from foreigners, is a striking object in that beautiful harbor.
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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He is now possessor of a large foundery in the island.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various
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His glass manufactures have attained to a good degree of perfection, and the foundery for smelting and forging iron ore is on an extensive scale, employing about two thousand men.
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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On the morrow, therefore, the rabble of the town again sounded the cry of "Church and King," and being joined by the rabble of the mining and foundery districts in the neighbourhood, they resumed their dreadful avocation.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
chained_bear commented on the word foundery
More commonly spelled foundry, but I copied the archaic spelling (book citation in list description):
"a place where cannon are cast."
October 9, 2008