Foundry
['faʊndrɪ] or ['faʊndri]
Definition
(n.) The act, process, or art of casting metals.
(n.) The buildings and works for casting metals.
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Examples
- There was no buying of foundry iron by analysis, no high carbon steels, no fancy tool steels--nor any efficiency experts with their stop watches and scientific speed-and-feed tables. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Brackets of cast iron, for holding the axle to the floor, are made in the foundry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Our printing-house often wanted sorts, and there was no letter foundry in America. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- All the aluminum parts as well as a large proportion of the brass, are also cast in this foundry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The foundry is one of the most interesting divisions of the entire plant, and ranks, perhaps, as one of the most unique in the country, as far as practice and equipment are concerned. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At the period of which I speak General Scott supposed a portion of the mill to be used as a foundry for the casting of guns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He later enclosed some fragments of whinstone in a black-lead crucible and subjected it to intense heat in the reverberating furnace of an iron foundry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They are sorted, inspected and counted before removing from the foundry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So far as foundry iron is concerned, the experience at Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, brief as it has been, shows that a stronger and tougher metal is made. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Some were farm labourers; a good deal worked at Mr. Oliver's needle-factory, and at the foundry. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And I'm not one who think truth can be shaped out in words, all neat and clean, as th' men at th' foundry cut out sheet-iron. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The molten metal is brought to this man’s station by means of large ladles, suspended on a trolley on an I-beam track, running from the cupola through the entire length of the foundry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Just beyond the loading docks is the foundry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Vast Number of Stove and Furnace Foundries in United States. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Davis's division of Thomas's army was sent to Rome, capturing it with its forts and artillery, and its valuable mills and foundries. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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