limekiln

[ lahym-kil, -kiln ]

/ ˈlaɪmˌkɪl, -ˌkɪln /

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noun

a kiln or furnace for making lime by calcining limestone or shells.

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Origin of limekiln

First recorded in 1250–1300, limekiln is from the Middle English word limkilne.See lime², kiln

Words nearby limekiln

lime burner, lime glass, lime green, Limehouse, lime-juicer, limekiln, limelight, lime liniment, limen, lime pit, limequat

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How to use limekiln in a sentence

I knew very well, however, that the appointed place was the little sluice-house by the limekiln on the marshes, and the hour nine.
Great Expectations|Charles Dickens
I left her for dead, and if there had been a limekiln as nigh her as there is now nigh you, she shouldn't have come to life again.
Great Expectations|Charles Dickens
The gases from a large limekiln supply the dilute carbonic acid gas, which contains 25 per cent.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887|Various
Limekiln-lane, now Lime-street, was so called from the limekiln that stood on the site of the present Skelhorn-street.
Recollections of Old Liverpool|A Nonagenarian

Master Whibble tells a tortuous story of finding it done up in a packet in a disused limekiln near the Downs.
The Plattner Story and Others|H. G. Wells

British Dictionary definitions for limekiln

limekiln

/ (ˈlaɪmˌkɪln) /

noun

a kiln in which calcium carbonate is calcined to produce quicklime

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