[f. FOUNDER v.]

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  † 1.  pl. Grounds, lees, sediment. Cf. F. fondrilles. Obs.

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c. 1450.  M. E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich), 176. Do awey þe foundres [v.r. groundes] vnderneþe.

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  2.  The action of the verb FOUNDER; a landslip.

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1882.  Cornh. Mag., XLVI. Dec., 738. A series of founders or landslips, caused by the undermining of the solid strata, has tossed about the superincumbent rocks into a tangled undercliff of rugged fragments.

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