foundry, metalworks
(noun) factory where metal castings are produced
Source: WordNet® 3.1
foundry (countable and uncountable, plural foundries)
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.
The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.
• (semiconductor fabrication plant): fab
Source: Wiktionary
Found"ry, n.; pl. Foundries. Etym: [See Foundery.]
1. The act, process, or art of casting metals.
2. The buildings and works for casting metals. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 May 2025
(verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; “On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
