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Definition of Molder

1. Verb. Break down. "The bodies decomposed in the heat"

Definition of Molder

1. n. One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically (Founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.

2. v. i. To crumble into small particles; to turn to dust by natural decay; to lose form, or waste away, by a gradual separation of the component particles, without the presence of water; to crumble away.

3. v. t. To turn to dust; to cause to crumble; to cause to waste away.

Definition of Molder

1. Noun. A person who makes molds. ¹

2. Noun. A tool for making molds. ¹

3. Noun. A machine for making molding. ¹

4. Verb. To decay to dust, to disintegrate from rot. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Molder

1. to turn to dust by natural decay [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Molder

Literary usage of Molder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Descriptions of Occupations by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Employment Service (1918)
"Description: The bench iron and brass molder does foundry work on molds for iron or brass ... Qualifications: The iron and brass molder must be a thoroughly ..."

2. Foundry Cost Accounting: Practice and Procedure by Robert E. Belt (1919)
"A good output per molder per day is often obtained for light solid castings where a number of them can be gated. There is no reason why light work should ..."

3. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1907)
"If sufficient Iron Is not furnished the molder to pour off his work, and such work has to remain over, he shall be paid for such work remaining over at one- ..."

4. How Motion Pictures are Made by Homer Croy (1918)
"... workmen, their hands still stiff from the shovel, and mothers with babies NOW A TYPE ACTOR. ONCE AN IRON-molder A typical example of the ..."

5. Scientific Management: A Collection of the More Significant Articles edited by Clarence Bertrand Thompson (1914)
"Let us suppose that each is paid at the rate of forty cents per hour, that the brass molder puts up twenty flasks a day, and that the iron molder puts up ..."

6. The Press and Politics in Japan: A Study of the Relation Between the by Kisaburō Kawabé (1921)
"INDEPENDENT JOURNALS AND THE RISE OF PUBLIC OPINION 122 The party-organ press not an efficient molder of public opinion; ..."

7. Bulletin (1916)
"The machine-molder is the leader of a gang of four workers who operate a ... All the members of the gang, including the molder, have been promoted from ..."

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