FOUNDRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foundry mean? 

• FOUNDRY (noun)
  The noun FOUNDRY has 1 sense:

1. factory where metal castings are produced

  Familiarity information: FOUNDRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOUNDRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Factory where metal castings are produced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

foundry; metalworks

Hypernyms ("foundry" is a kind of...):

factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill (a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foundry"):

armory; armoury; arsenal (a place where arms are manufactured)

bell foundry (a foundry where bells are cast)

iron foundry (a foundry where cast iron is produced)

 Context examples 

Some were farm labourers; a good deal worked at Mr. Oliver's needle-factory, and at the foundry.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her salary will be thirty pounds a year: her house is already furnished, very simply, but sufficiently, by the kindness of a lady, Miss Oliver; the only daughter of the sole rich man in my parish—Mr. Oliver, the proprietor of a needle- factory and iron-foundry in the valley.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)