Other forms: foundries
A foundry is a works where metal is melted and poured into moulds. An iron foundry, work in the foundry, the foundry floor.
Casting is the oldest way of shaping metal in quantity, and a foundry still works on the same principle as it did three thousand years ago. In computing, a chip foundry makes semiconductors to other companies' designs, and the name is borrowed.
1nounfoundryA works where metal is melted and poured into moulds.
“The church bells were made at a foundry where workers poured hot bronze into huge moulds.”
foundry is a works.
French fonderie comes from fondre, to melt, from Latin fundere, to pour.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵʰewd-
French
fonderie
English, today
foundry
From French fonderie. by surface analysis, found + -ry.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA