Definition of "iron-founder" [iron-founder]

• One who makes iron castings. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "There is no finer, more succinct example of this aspect of his character than Brown's concluding letter to Frederick Huxham, the iron-founder with whom he had a six-month quarrel over the pricing of a saw-mill:"
• "The particular beef-slaughterer or iron-founder thus favored could not hope of his own ability thus to obtain a contract."
• "All it had to do was to organize to do that, obtain a charter, secure a contract for supplying such material to the city from the city council (which Strobik, Harmon, and Wycroft would attend to), and then sublet this to some actual beef-slaughterer or iron-founder, who would supply the material and allow them to pocket their profit which in turn was divided or paid for to"