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kiln
[kil, kiln] 
–noun
| 1. | a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, esp. one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks. |
–verb (used with object)
| 2. | to burn, bake, or treat in a kiln. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME kiln(e), OE cylen < L culīna kitchen
bef. 900; ME kiln(e), OE cylen < L culīna kitchen
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| 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.] |
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Kiln
Kiln\, n. [OE. kilne, kulne, AS. cyln, cylen; akin to Icel. kylna; prob. from the same source as coal. See Coal.]1. A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone. 2. A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
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Language Translation for : kiln
Spanish:
horno,
German:
der Brennofen,
Japanese:
かま
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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