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- noun Plural form of
foundryman .
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Examples
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While they were waiting for a new bell from England, the colonists grew impatient, so two foundrymen volunteered to recast the cracked bell.
Franklin's Tower Exegesis--Andrew Shalit Andrew Shalit 2005
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J.hn J. Pass may have been a son, nephew, sibling of the J.hn PASS who was one of the foundrymen who recast the bell.
Franklin's Tower Exegesis--Andrew Shalit Andrew Shalit 2005
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American Beef and Pork Company, two corporations on paper whose principal business was subletting contracts secured from the city to the humble butchers and foundrymen who would carry out orders as given and not talk too much or ask questions.
The Financier 2004
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They hired foundrymen, and people who did know that, but they didn't really do it themselves.
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Then ... our chief assembly men are considered equally as skilled, I would say, as the foundrymen.
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Here as elsewhere it is the foundrymen who are the important factors -- their attitude, their desires, their capabilities.
A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick
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Michael Drayton, of the _Poly Olbion_, who was, however, distressed less as a political economist than as the friend of the wood nymphs driven by the encroaching and devastating foundrymen from their native sanctuaries to the inhospitable Downs.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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They looked like workmen from a metal factory, foundrymen with jackets and pantaloons of corduroy.
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Foundry Company and the American Beef and Pork Company, two corporations on paper whose principal business was subletting contracts secured from the city to the humble butchers and foundrymen who would carry out orders as given and not talk too much or ask questions.
The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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Advertisements were inserted in the Scotch newspapers, announcing our want of mechanics, smiths, and foundrymen.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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