Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lay a foundation

The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation. / One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state) / (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.

(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.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lay, foundation.

plural of foundation

of, or relating to a foundation or foundations / fundamental or underlying

plural of foundling