Nearby Words
Synonyms

kiln

[kil, kiln] Example Sentences Origin

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.

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Kiln is one of our favorite verbs.
So is peculate. Does it mean:
to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle.
to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.

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

un·kilned, adjective

kill, kiln, quell.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To kiln
Example Sentences
  • The kiln supposedly wound up being used by friends of the district governor's wife.
  • The piece is fired in a kiln multiple times to melt and solidify the enamel, and finally it is polished to a lustrous shine.
  • Alongside them were pitchers that seemed deliberately twisted and vases warped as if melted in the kiln.
EXPAND
Collins
World English Dictionary
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
Cite This Source
Etymonline
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
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature