Definitions for kilnkɪl, kɪln
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
kilnkɪl, kɪln(n.)
a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, esp. one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
Category: Ceramics
(v.t.)to burn, bake, or treat in a kiln.
Category: Ceramics
Origin of kiln:
bef. 900; ME kiln(e), OE cylen < L culīna kitchen
Princeton's WordNet
kiln(noun)
a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
Wiktionary
kiln(Noun)
An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics or curing or preserving tobacco.
kiln(Verb)
To bake in a kiln.
When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.
Origin: From kilne, from cylene or cyline, from culina, introduced by the Romans to England in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
Webster Dictionary
Kiln(noun)
a large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone
Kiln(noun)
a furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln
Translations for kiln
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
kiln(noun)
a type of large oven for baking pottery or bricks, drying grain etc.
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