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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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| —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 | |
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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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Example sentences
He supports a family of five by working at a nearby kiln, molding bricks by hand for up to eighty hours a week.
She was enchanted by the alchemy of glazes: drab when brushed on, brilliant when they came out of the kiln.
Small children then loaded the unbaked bricks onto donkey carts to carry to the kiln.
At a brick kiln she uncovers violence and desperation.
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