[kil, kiln] 
| 1. | a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, esp. one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks. |
| 2. | to burn, bake, or treat in a kiln. |
| kiln (kĭln, kĭl) 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 culīna, kitchen, stove; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.] |