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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An establishment where metal is melted and poured into molds.
  2. n. The skill or operation of founding.
  3. n. The castings made by founding.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The easting of metals.
  2. n. An establishment for the founding of metallic articles: as, a foundry of bells or of cannon; a type-foundry.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with, as iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act, process, or art of casting metals.
  2. n. The buildings and works for casting metals.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. factory where metal castings are produced

Etymologies

  1. From French fonderie. (Wiktionary)

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