tar-kiln

Some were tending a tar-kiln, and some engaged in cutting into fire-wood the pines which a recent tornado had thrown to the ground.

Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

This was a _tervahauta_ or tar-kiln, which looked like an enormous mushroom turned upside down, standing on a thick stem of wooden piles, only in this case the mushroom was ninety or

Through Finland in Carts

I was burning inside like a tar-kiln, and I wonder that the smoke hadn't been pouring out of me at all points.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Some were tending a tar-kiln, and some engaged in cutting into fire-wood the pines which a recent tornado had thrown to the ground.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

It is made wholly from the heart or "light wood" of the long-leafed pine, which is split into billets of a size convenient for handling and arranging in the tar-kiln.

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856

But I know'd that I had to be on my best behavior, and so I kept it all to myself; though I was so mad that I was burning inside like a tar-kiln, and I wonder that the smoke had not been pouring out of me at all points.

David Crockett 1841