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kilned
[
kil
,
kiln
]
Origin
kiln
/
kɪl
,
kɪln
/
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[
kil
,
kiln
]
Show IPA
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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Kilned
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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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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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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