founderer

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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)