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kiln
[ kil, kiln ]
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.
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
Other Words From
- un·kilned adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of kiln1
Word History and Origins
Origin of kiln1
Example Sentences
For me, few things match the thrill of pulling something beautiful out of the kiln.
Clay shrinks when fired in a kiln, so the first mugs I made that weren’t ugly came out more like handled thimbles.
Communities near refineries, cement kilns, and power plants have frequently opposed offset programs.
Communities near refineries, cement kilns and power plants have frequently opposed offset programs.
They then make their way to the kiln for a second firing at about 1,300 degrees for 12 hours.
To hear the creature talk about it makes my mouth as a brick kiln and my flesh as that of a goose.
In tar-kiln burning only dead wood is used, the green tree yielding less tar and of lower quality.
The former, brown in colour, are glazed by throwing salt on the bricks in the kiln.
Beside a still smoking lime-kiln an abandoned fire was burning down into red coals.
He built himself a house; he ploughed the land; and then he made a lime-kiln on the very borders of the fairies' home.
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