kiln

English

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Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia: historic tobacco kiln

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English kilne, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English cylene or cyline (“large oven”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪl(n)/

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• Rhymes: -ɪl, -ɪln

Noun

kiln (plural kilns)

1. 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.
   • 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.

Translations

oven, furnace or heated chamber

• Albanian: furrë (sq) f
• Arabic: فَرْن m (farn)
• Armenian: թրծավառարան (hy) (tʻrcavaṙaran), չորացնող վառարան (čʻoracʻnoġ vaṙaran)
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: керамична/варова пещ f (keramična/varova pešt)
• Catalan: forn (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 窯／窑 (zh) (yáo), 窑 (zh) (yáo)

• Czech: vypalovací pec f
• Dutch: oven (nl) m, drooghut f, droogkamer (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: põletusahi
• Finnish: uuni (fi) (oven or furnace), riihi (fi) (grain drying cabin), kuivaamo, kuivuri (drying facility)
• French: four (fr) m, touraille (fr) f
• Galician: forno (gl) m
• Georgian: გამოსაწვავი ღუმელი (gamosac̣vavi ɣumeli)
• German: Brennofen m
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: भट्टा (bhaṭṭā)
• Hungarian: égetőkemence (hu)
• Irish: áith f
• Italian: fornace (it) f
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• Japanese: 窯 (ja) (かま, kama), 炉 (ja) (ろ, ro)
• Korean: 가마 (ko) (gama)
• Latin: fornāx f
• Latvian: ceplis m
• Ligurian: fornâxe f
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: aiee
• Marathi: भट्टी f (bhatti)
• Persian: کوره (fa) (kure), تون (fa) (tun)
• Polish: suszarnia (pl) f, piec do wypalania cegły
• Portuguese: forno (pt) m
• Russian: суши́льная печь f (sušílʹnaja pečʹ), печь для о́бжига и су́шки (pečʹ dlja óbžiga i súški)
• Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: àth f
• Spanish: horno (es) m
• Swedish: kölna c, torkugn c, torkhus n, brännugn c
• Thai: เตาเผา (dtao păo)
• Turkish: kireç ocağı (tr)
• Vietnamese: lò (vi)
• Welsh: odyn f

Verb

kiln (third-person singular simple present kilns, present participle kilning, simple past and past participle kilned)

1. To bake in a kiln.

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

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.

Anagrams

• Link, link

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Indonesian

Etymology

From English klin, from Middle English kilne, from Old English cylene or cyline (“large oven”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɪln], [ˈkɪlə̆n]
• Hyphenation: kiln

Noun

kiln (first-person possessive kilnku, second-person possessive kilnmu, third-person possessive kilnnya)

1. (archaeology) kiln.

Further reading

• “kiln” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.