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founder (2 rare fig. use of the nautical sense)
1. to cause (a horse) to break down or go lame Tp. IV. i. 30 “Phoebus' steeds are f-'d,” 2H4 IV. iii. 39.
2. to come to grief, be wrecked H8 III. ii. 40.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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