kiln

[kil, kiln]
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.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English kiln(e), Old English cylen < Latin culīna kitchen

Related forms
un·kilned, adjective

Can be confused: kill, kiln, quell.
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kiln (kɪln) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—n
1.  a large oven for burning, drying, or processing something, such as porcelain or bricks
 
—vb
2.  (tr) to fire or process in a kiln
 
[Old English cylen, from Late Latin culīna kitchen, from Latin coquere to cook]

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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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Example sentences
It involves allegations that officials ignored kiln-owners' use of abducted
  boys to perform dangerous work.
Alongside them were pitchers that seemed deliberately twisted and vases warped
  as if melted in the kiln.
Home is a small room made of bricks, on the edge of the kiln.
Stroll to the antiques shops on the central square or buy pottery from the
  on-site kiln.
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