One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).

(genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.

The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.

One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.

(veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.

(intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.

(intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.

(intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.

(transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.