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 Word Forms

• unkilned 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

Conch and Huawei have developed AI tools for more precisely predicting clinker strength, as well as for controlling energy use at the kiln where it is made.

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The house is wrapped in clinker brick, a term for when clay bricks are set too close to the flames when being fired in a kiln, giving them distorted shapes and colors.

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After this, the wood goes into a large kiln where it is dried in a process that can last anywhere from 10 days to six weeks.

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To tell a story, writes Mr. Johnson, is to “fire it in the kiln of real life, resulting not in a fabrication, but a reality hard enough, sharp enough, to draw blood.”

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The handprint found underneath was probably made when someone, perhaps the potter, moved the house out of the workshop to dry before firing in a kiln, according to the researchers.

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Related Words

• furnace 
• stove