founder

Noun

founder noun

1. One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state)“the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg”
2. Someone for whose parents one has no data.

founder noun

1. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
2. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.“a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types”

founder noun

1. A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.

Verb

founder verb

1. Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
3. To fail; to miscarry.
4. To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.