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noun
1.
a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, especially one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
verb (used with object)
2.
to burn, bake, or treat in a kiln.
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Example Sentences
- The kiln supposedly wound up being used by friends of the district governor's wife.
- The piece is fired in a kiln multiple times to melt and solidify the enamel, and finally it is polished to a lustrous shine.
- Alongside them were pitchers that seemed deliberately twisted and vases warped as if melted in the kiln.
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Word Origin & History
kiln
O.E. cyln, from L. culina "kitchen, cooking stove," unexplained variant of coquere "to cook" (see cook (n.)). O.N. kylna, Welsh cilin probably are from Eng.
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