founder
The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
Noun
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- The term 'founder' was applied in the British iron industry long afterwards to the ironworker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation. - 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel...
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
- a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types
Origin
From Middle French fondeur, from Latin fundo (“pour, melt, cast”).
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Noun Entry 2
- One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
- The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg.
- As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor...
- Young people love to idolize their predecessors. [Steve] Jobs was Silicon Valley's idol of choice for decades, but to the next generation of startup founders, his legacy feels about as old as Web 1.0. - 2022 January 13,...
Antonyms: ruiner
- A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
- a founder population
- the founder effect
- The sickle cell mutation today can be found in five different haplotypes, leading to the conclusion that the mutation appeared independently five times in five different founders. - 2006 June 1, Dennis Drayna, “Founder...
Origin
From Old French fondeur, from Latin fundātor, equivalent to found + -er.
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bellfounder brassfounder bronzefounder cofounder founder effect founderer founderitis founder member founder mode founderous foundership foundress ironfounder letterfounder nonfounder
Noun biology, medicine
- A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
Origin
From Middle French fondrer (“send to the bottom”), from Latin fundus (“bottom”).
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Verb
- To flood with water and sink.
- We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship but we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a ship foundering in the sea. - 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel...
- This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of a bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog—in such tones he commenced reading the following hymn;(...) - 1851 November 14, Herman Melville,...
- Amongst the battleships, things are rather different. Barham led a valiant charge, but suffered for it; she will founder under tow in the Thames estuary shallows, eventually being refloated and refitted after the war. -...
- To fall; to stumble and go lame.
- To fail; to miscarry.
- All his tricks founder. - 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First...
- The other ambitions, and much of Prescott's plan, foundered just south of Hatfield that October, when a GNER express derailed on a shattered rail […], plunging the railway into a crisis that led to private track owner...
- To cause to flood and sink, as a ship.
- We found a strong Tide setting out of the Streights to the Northward, and like to founder our Ship. - 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World. […], London: […] James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 82:
- I was amazed when we came among the breakers (which to me seemed large enough to founder our ship), to see with what wondrous dexterity they carried us through them, and ran their canoes on the top of one of those...
- 1932, Hart Crane, "From haunts of Proserpine" (Review of Green River: A Poem for Rafinesque, James Whaler But still more disastrous was the storm which foundered his ship in Long Island Sound, swallowing within call of...
- To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.