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Webster 1913 Edition
Kiln
Kiln
(kĭln or kĭl)
, Noun.
[OE.
kilne
, kulne
, AS. cyln
, cylen
; akin to Icel. kylna
; prob. from the same source as coal
. See Coal
.] 1.
A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything;
as, a
kiln
for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln
for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln
for calcining limestone.2.
A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
Webster 1828 Edition
Kiln
KILN
,Noun.
1.
A large stove or oven; a fabric of brick or stone which may be heated for the purpose of hardening, burning or drying any thing; as a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain or meal.2.
A pile of brick constructed for burning or hardening; called also a brick-kiln.Definition 2024
kiln
kiln
English
Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia: historic tobacco kiln
Noun
kiln (plural kilns)
- An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.
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Translations
oven, furnace or heated chamber
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Verb
kiln (third-person singular simple present kilns, present participle kilning, simple past and past participle kilned)
- To bake in a kiln.
- When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.