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- noun Plural form of
foundery .
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Examples
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We also destroyed several valuable founderies and the factory of Confederate money.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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I was not bound by the laws of war to give notice of the shelling of Atlanta, a "fortified town, with magazines, arsenals, founderies, and public stores;" you were bound to take notice.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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It was too important a place in the hands of the enemy to be left undisturbed, with its magazines, stores, arsenals, work shops, founderies and converging railways.
History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service John R. Kinnear
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Turks; on the opposite shore is the maritime town of Galata, containing the docks, arsenals, cannon founderies, barracks, &c.; above which stands the populous suburb of Pera, the residence of the foreign ministers of the
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829 Various
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We went in succession through the founderies for iron and brass, the steam boiler manufactory, and saw the planing machines and lathes; and as to all the other shops and factories, I can only say, that the yard looked like a city.
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On the morning of the 13th, the 2nd division of the 14th Corps was set in motion from Cartersville toward Atlanta, destroying the railway, founderies, mills, etc., on its route.
History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service John R. Kinnear
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In two weeks I was convalescent, and yet I daily exhausted my returning strength by gaining a knowledge of the Nashville founderies, machine-shops, bridges, capitol, industry, and whatever
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I have seen wagon loads of these lying at railroad depots, waiting shipment to the founderies.
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After visiting the convict-hulk, and seeing the anchor-founderies in operation, the Khan crossed to Blackwall, and returned to town by the railway, his first conveyance when he landed in England.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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In the midland counties, Staffordshire possesses the nearest coal districts to the metropolis, of any great extent; but such is the immense daily consumption of coal in the iron-furnaces and founderies, that it is generally believed this will be the first of our own coal-fields that will be exhausted.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 Various
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