Foundry vs Blacksmith - What's the difference?
foundry | blacksmith |
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 person who forges iron.
*(James Howell) (c.1594–1666)
*:The blacksmith may forge what he pleases.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
(lb) A person who shoes horses; a farrier.
A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis'' or ''Heliastes punctipinnis ).