kiln
[ kil, kiln ]
/ kɪl, kɪln /
noun
a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, especially one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
verb (used with object)
to burn, bake, or treat in a kiln.
Nearby words
- killy,
- killy, jean-claude,
- kilmarnock,
- kilmer,
- kilmer, joyce,
- kiln run brick,
- kiln-dried,
- kiln-dry,
- kilner jar,
- kilo
Origin of kiln
before 900; Middle English kiln(e), Old English cylen < Latin culīna kitchen
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kiln
/ (kɪln) /
noun
a large oven for burning, drying, or processing something, such as porcelain or bricks
verb
(tr) to fire or process in a kiln
Word Origin for kiln
Old English cylen, from Late Latin culīna kitchen, from Latin coquere to cook
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kiln
Old English cyln, cylen "kiln, oven," from Latin culina "kitchen, cooking stove," unexplained variant of coquere "to cook" (see cook (n.)). Old Norse kylna, Welsh cilin probably are from English.
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