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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.
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)
—
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
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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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
.
The piece is fired in a
kiln
multiple times to melt and solidify the enamel, and finally it is polished to a lustrous shine.
The streaked vessels have tiny blowholes, which prevented explosions in the
kiln
.
The cut clay was run between two homemade plaster dies and then baked in a
kiln
.
She was enchanted by the alchemy of glazes: drab when brushed on, brilliant when they came out of the
kiln
.
He supports a family of five by working at a nearby
kiln
, molding bricks by hand for up to eighty hours a week.
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