Foundry

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: found=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

Foundry, n. [See Foundery.].

•  The act, process, or art of casting metals.  [1913 Webster]
•  The buildings and works for casting metals.  [1913 Webster]

Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Foundry, n. (pl. -ies) a workshop for or a business of casting metal.

ROGET THESAURUS

Foundry

Workshop

N workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business, manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory, cabinet, studio, office, branch office bureau, atelier, hive, hive of industry, nursery, hothouse, hotbed, kitchen, mint, forge, loom, dock, dockyard, alveary, armory, laboratory, lab, research institute, refinery, cannery, power plant, beauty parlor, beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf, foundry, foundery, furnace, vineyard, crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix, at work, at the office, at the shop, working.