kiln

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  1. noun 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.
  2. transitive verb To process in one of these ovens.

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  • He put it on the table above which hung the careful and curious picture of the brick-kiln, and then with a sudden horror I saw why the stranger on the gravel outside had been so familiar to me. —  Collected Stories
  • And he went straight to the table above which hung the picture of the man at the brick-kiln, and looked at it. —  Collected Stories
  • A good mortgage made on sound financial terms based on the credit history and assets of a borrower is like a kiln-fired brick that will last. —  Iowa State Daily
  • Now I should have left it at this point but the kiln was hot - and only needed another 100 degrees to make it hot enough to fire enamel - and I had found those old enamels in the shed - and they really did need to be checked to see how well they worked on silver - and well … why not??? —  Thing-a-day 2009
  • The Gloworm kiln is a refractory fiber anagama designed and built by Thomas Ladd of … —  Portland Mercury
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  1. Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, from Latin culīna, kitchen, stove; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also kill, formerly kil; early modern English kylne, kyll, from Middle English kylne, kulne, from Anglo-Saxon cyln, cylene, cyline = Icelandic kylna = Norwegian kylna = Swedish kölna = Danish kölle, a kiln, a drying-house, from Latin culina, a kitchen: see culinary. The present pronunciation requires the spelling kill (cf. mill, formerly miln, of similar phonetic form); but kiln is the prevalent spelling.
  2. Also kill; from kiln, n.
 

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