Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The place where iron castings are made.

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Examples

  • Beijing took aim at 96 companies with 31.2 million metric tons in iron-foundry capacity, as well as 58 companies with 27.9 million tons of steelmaking capacity.

    China Furthers Drive to Cut Metal Capacity Chuin-Wei Yap 2011

  • The casualties of a twentieth century war between two world-powers are such as to make a worker in an iron-foundry turn green with envy.

    THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

  • The most curious circumstance attending it is, that the stones are all firmly connected together by a kind of vitrified matter, like lava, or like the stay or scoriæ of an iron-foundry, and the stones themselves, in many places, have been softened and vitrified.

    The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

  • At an iron-foundry I was surprised to find that steam-engines and flour-mill machinery could not be manufactured fast enough to meet the demand.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • This young man was a pauper boy, and was apprenticed to the master of an iron-foundry in Scotland, but ran away before the expiration of his apprenticeship, and, entering a ship at Glasgow, worked his passage across to Quebec.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • On inquiry, they learnt that the nuns had removed to another house ten miles distant from Liége, and on the hills where the old farm - house, the white, low-roofed convent had once stood so peacefully, a great iron-foundry was smoking and spouting fire day and night, covering field and garden with heaps of black smouldering ashes.

    My Little Lady Eleanor Frances Poynter

  • There is also another man I am going to see on Monday, who has a good-sized iron-foundry.

    Canada for Gentlemen James Seaton Cockburn

  • There is a good iron-foundry established here, which turns out some excellent engines.

    Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

  • By the side of the castle is a large iron-foundry, employing 170 men.

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • While there we had the good fortune to be admitted to a pin-factory, an iron-foundry, a watch-factory, and the most extensive brass-works in the world.

    The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 24, April 22, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

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