kiln

[kil, kiln]

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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.

Origin of kiln

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

Related formsun·kilned, adjective

Can be confusedkill kiln

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Related Words for kiln

stove, furnace, fire, hearth, glaze, oast, bake

Examples from the Web for kiln

Historical Examples of kiln

But the marble statues they put into a kiln to make lime to plaster their houses.
Buried Cities, Part 2
Jennie Hall
And the idea of turning his Serapeum into a kiln does not appeal to him.
The Book of Khalid
Ameen Rihani
Kiln marks are formed on some of the brick due to the weight of the brick above in the kiln.
American Rural Highways
T. R. Agg
When the kiln is full the wicket is bricked up and daubed over with road-mud.
Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad
Various
Escorting them across the room he showed them a low oven or kiln.
The Story of Glass
Sara Ware Bassett

British Dictionary definitions for kiln

kiln

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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Word Origin and History for 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.