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foundry

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found·ry

[foun-dree]
noun, plural -ries.
1.
an establishment for producing castings in molten metal.
2.
the act or process of founding or casting metal.
3.
the category of metal objects made by founding; castings.

Origin:
1595–1605; < French fonderie. See found3, -ery
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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foundry (ˈfaʊndrɪ)
 
n , pl -ries
1.  a place in which metal castings are produced
2.  the science or practice of casting metal
3.  cast-metal articles collectively
 
[C17: from Old French fonderie, from fondre; see found³]

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foundry
c.1600, from Fr. fonderei, from fondre (see found (2)).
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