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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
Noun
a large oven for burning, drying, or processing pottery, bricks, etc. [Latin culina kitchen]
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

kiln [kɪln] nfour m

kiln [kɪln] nBrennofen m

kiln [kɪln] nforno

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 polttouuni four כִּבשָׁן ईंटों का भट्टा peć za pečenje (vapna, opeke) égetőkemence pembakaran (leir)brennsluofn fornace かま 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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