kiln

KILN/kɪln/

Pluralkilns

Verbkilns, kilning, kilned

2 meanings of kiln

1
nouncountable
A very hot oven used to harden, dry, or bake things like clay pots, bricks, or grain.
Like a giant oven that gets much hotter than the one in your kitchen.
The potter loaded her clay bowls into the kiln to bake them hard.
A brick kiln can reach temperatures hot enough to melt some metals.
Similaroven, furnace
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2
verbtransitive
To heat something in a special hot oven to make it hard or dry.
Like baking bread in an oven, but to make hard objects instead of food.
Farmers kiln the malted barley to dry it for brewing.
She kilned the clay tiles until they turned hard and red.
Similarfire, bake, dry

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Origin

From Old English "cyln," meaning a large oven, which came from Latin "culina," meaning kitchen or kitchen stove.