Meaning of KILN
| Pronunciation: | | kil
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| | Definition: | | [n] a large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks |
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| | See Also: | | brickkiln, dry kiln, limekiln, muffle, oast, oven | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | acid kiln, air-dry, anhydrate, bake, blot, brickkiln, brush, burn, cement kiln, cure, dehumidify, dehydrate, desiccate, drain, dry, enamel kiln, evaporate, exsiccate, fire, furnace, insolate, limekiln, muffle kiln, mummify, oven, parch, pyrometer, pyrometric cone, reverberatory, reverberatory kiln, rub, scorch, sear, Seger cone, shrivel, smoke, soak up, sponge, stove, sun, sun-dry, swab, torrefy, towel, weazen, wipe, wither, wizen |
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