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ajautua karille One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something originates; one who endows.
puhekieltä Someone for whose parents one has no data.
The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 161.

The term 'founder' was applied in the British iron industry long afterwards to the ironworker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.

a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types

We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship but we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a ship foundering in the sea.

All his tricks founder.

We found a strong Tide setting out of the Streights to the Northward, and like to founder our Ship.

"I was amazed when we came among the breakers (which to me seemed large enough to founder our ship), to see with what wondrous dexterity they carried us through them, and ran their canoes on the top of one of those rolling waves (..)"

But still more disastrous was the storm which foundered his ship in Long Island Sound, swallowing within call of shore his fifty boxes of scientific equipment, his books, manuscripts and funds, the results of years of devoted labor.