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kiln

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kiln  (kln, kl)
n.
Any of various ovens for hardening, burning, or drying substances such as grain, meal, or clay, especially a brick-lined oven used to bake or fire ceramics.
tr.v. kilned, kiln·ing, kilns
To process in one of these ovens.

[Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, from Latin culna, kitchen, stove; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.]

kiln [kɪln]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Ceramics) a large oven for burning, drying, or processing something, such as porcelain or bricks
vb
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Ceramics) (tr) to fire or process in a kiln
[Old English cylen, from Late Latin culīna kitchen, from Latin coquere to cook]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.kilnkiln - a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
brickkiln - a kiln for making bricks
dry kiln - a kiln for drying and seasoning lumber
furnace - an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
limekiln - a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime
muffle - a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature
oast - a kiln for drying hops
Translations
kiln [kɪln] Nhorno m

kiln [ˈkɪln] nfour m

kiln
n (for baking, burning) → (Brenn)ofen m; (for minerals) → Röst- or Kiesofen m; (for drying bricks etc) → Trockenofen m; (for hops etc) → Darre f, → Darrofen m

kiln [kɪln] nfornace f
kiln [kɪln] nfornace f

kiln
n kiln [kiln]
a type of large oven for baking pottery or bricks, drying grain etc. steenoond أتون، فُرْن пещ pec ovn der Brennofen καμίνι horno põletusahi کوره uuni four כִּבשָׁן ईंटों का भट्टा peć za pečenje (vapna, opeke) égetőkemence pembakaran (leir)brennsluofn fornace かま (벽돌 등을 굽는) 가마 krosnis ceplis tanur oven brenne-/tegl-/tørkeovn piec do wypalania fornalha cuptor de ardere (промышленная) печь pec žgalna peč peć za pečenje grnčarije brännugn เตาเผา tuğla ocağı, fırın 窯,乾燥爐 сушильна, випалювальна піч بھٹّی یا تنور lò nung 窑,


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After a good deal of effort we moulded about twenty-five thousand bricks, and put them into a kiln to be burned.
In it the poet invokes Athena to protect certain potters and their craft, if they will, according to promise, give him a reward for his song; if they prove false, malignant gnomes are invoked to wreck the kiln and hurt the potters.
Waiting for some reply, I looked about me, noticing how the sluice was abandoned and broken, and how the house - of wood with a tiled roof - would not be proof against the weather much longer, if it were so even now, and how the mud and ooze were coated with lime, and how the choking vapour of the kiln crept in a ghostly way towards me.
 
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