founderer

English

Etymology

From founder +‎ -er.

Noun

founderer (plural founderers)

1. One who founders.
   • 1997, Kelly Joyce Neff, Dear Companion: The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson, page 92:

     When she and her sister were away at Williamsburg, Nancy and I were more like founderers on a raft adrift in an angry sea.

2. Misconstruction of founder (“metalworker”).