kiln
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English[edit]
Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia: historic tobacco kiln
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English kilne, from Old English cylene or cyline (“large oven”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɪl(n)/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪl, -ɪln
Noun[edit]
kiln (plural kilns)
- An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
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2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
- One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.
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Translations[edit]
oven, furnace or heated chamber
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Verb[edit]
kiln (third-person singular simple present kilns, present participle kilning, simple past and past participle kilned)
- To bake in a kiln.
- When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.
