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kiln

English

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Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia: historic tobacco kiln

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Etymology

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From Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, cylen, cylin (“large oven, kiln”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).

Middle English -ln(e) usually becomes modern -ll as in mill. The pronunciation /kɪln/ may be based on dialects in which this simplification did not take place, but it must have been at least reinforced by spelling pronunciation.

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kiln (plural kilns)

  1. An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
    Hyponyms: anagama kiln, bottle kiln, brickkiln, climbing kiln, dragon kiln, limekiln, malt-kiln, Ru kiln
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎[1]:
      One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

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Verb

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kiln (third-person singular simple present kilns, present participle kilning, simple past and past participle kilned)

  1. To bake in a kiln; to fire.
    When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.

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Etymology

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From English kiln, from Middle English kilne, from Old English cylene or cyline (“large oven”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkɪln], [ˈkɪlə̆n]
  • Hyphenation: kiln

Noun

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kiln (first-person possessive kilnku, second-person possessive kilnmu, third-person possessive kilnnya)

  1. (archaeology) kiln, an oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
    Synonyms: dapur, kiln, tanur, tungku
    Synonym: tanur (Standard Malay)

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