kiln

[ kil, kiln ]

noun

1. a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, especially one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.

verb (used with object)

1. to burn, bake, or treat in a kiln.

kiln

/ kɪln /

noun

1. a large oven for burning, drying, or processing something, such as porcelain or bricks

verb

1. tr to fire or process in a kiln

Other Words From

• un·kilned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of kiln¹

before 900; Middle English kiln ( e ), Old English cylen < Latin culīna kitchen

Word History and Origins

Origin of kiln¹

Old English cylen, from Late Latin culīna kitchen, from Latin coquere to cook

Example Sentences

To hear the creature talk about it makes my mouth as a brick kiln and my flesh as that of a goose.

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In tar-kiln burning only dead wood is used, the green tree yielding less tar and of lower quality.

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The former, brown in colour, are glazed by throwing salt on the bricks in the kiln.

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Beside a still smoking lime-kiln an abandoned fire was burning down into red coals.

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He built himself a house; he ploughed the land; and then he made a lime-kiln on the very borders of the fairies' home.

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Related Words

• furnace
• stove