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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.

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

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kiln

Noun

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

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

kiln - 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] n → horno

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kiln [kɪln] n → four m

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kiln [kɪln] n → Brennofen m

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kiln [kɪln] n → forno