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What does foundry mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word foundry? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
  2. The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
  3. A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.
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Primarily an agrarian community the town was also home to a brass foundry, an iron forge, a wire-drawing mill, and a community of cabinetmakers.
The pawnbroker in turn resold the gold to a foundry, where it was recycled.
I just stand there with a sheepish grin, my heart thumping like a foundry hammer.
For thousands of years, in fact, foundry workers have made bronze castings of clay models made by sculptors.
After his military training he apprenticed as a molder at an iron foundry where he worked for a few years.
The furnaces along the far wall were roaring, opened doors throwing skittering shadows across the huge foundry floor.

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