kiln
noun
a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, especially one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
kilned
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past participleof kiln.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof kiln.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
kilnnouna furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, especially one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
Example Sentences
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Then, last spring, she attracted attention by building a second house for herself, of rosy, freshly kilned brick, abutting the compound of Roshan, the village’s most powerful man.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2016
His "giant" body, "kilned by tropical suns and arctic winds" to a permanent bronze, possesses "a strength superhuman."
From Time Magazine Archive
The handmade brick of the house kilned out of the dirt it stood on.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
