Definitions for kiln
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. kilnnoun

   a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. kilnnoun

   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.

2. kilnverb

   To bake in a kiln.

   When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.

3. Etymology: From kilne, from cylene or cyline, from culina, introduced by the Romans to England in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. KILNnoun

   A stove; a fabrick formed for admitting heat, in order to dry or burn things contained in it.

   Etymology: cyln, Saxon.

   What shall I do? I’ll creep up into the chimney.———
   There they always use to discharge their birding-pieces: creep into the kiln hole. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

   After the putting forth in sprouts, and the drying upon the kiln, there will be gained a bushel in eight of malt. Francis Bacon.

   Physicians chuse lime which is newly drawn out of the kiln, and not slacked. Joseph Moxon, Mech. Exer.

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1. kiln

   A kiln is a type of oven or furnace used for hardening, burning, or drying substances such as clay or wood. It operates at high temperatures and is often used in pottery, brick-making, and other forms of ceramics.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Kilnnoun

   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

2. Kilnnoun

   a furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln

3. Etymology: [OE. kilne, kulne, AS. cyln, cylen; akin to Icel. kylna; prob. from the same source as coal. See Coal.]

WikidataRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Kiln

   A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes. Various industries and trades use kilns to harden objects made from clay into pottery, bricks etc. Various industries use rotary kilns for pyroprocessing—to calcinate ores, produce cement, lime, and many other materials. The earliest known kiln dates to around 6000 BC, and was found at the Yarim Tepe site in modern Iraq. Other uses include: ⁕To dry green lumber so it can be used immediately ⁕Drying wood for use as firewood ⁕Heating wood to the point of pyrolysis to produce charcoal ⁕For annealing, fusing and deforming glass, or fusing metallic oxide paints to the surface of glass ⁕For cremation ⁕Drying of tobacco leaves ⁕Drying malted barley for brewing and other fermentations ⁕Drying hops for brewing ⁕Drying corn before grinding or storage, sometimes called a corn kiln, corn drying kiln. ⁕Smelting ore to extract metal ⁕Heating limestone with clay in the manufacture of Portland cement ⁕Heating limestone to make quicklime or calcium oxide

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Kiln

   kil, n. a large oven in which corn, bricks, hops, &c. are dried: bricks placed for burning.—v.t. Kiln′-dry, to dry in a kiln.—n. Kiln′-hole, the mouth of a kiln. [A.S. cyln (Ice. kylna, a drying-house for corn)—L. culina, a kitchen.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. kiln

   The dockyard building wherein planks are steamed for the purpose of bending them to round the extremities of a ship.

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1. KILN

   What does KILN stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the KILN acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of kiln in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of kiln in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of kiln in a Sentence

1. Potter Steve Harrison:

   The day before I had actually built myself a small kiln down the back — a coffin-sized kiln — just big enough for me to crawl inside, i could have (died) if I hadn't thought about plan B. In that little kiln enclosure I made, I had a fire extinguisher, a bucket of water, a drinking water bottle and a fire blanket.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=kiln
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kiln
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=kiln
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kiln
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=kiln
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=kiln
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=kiln