# kiln

Pronunciation: say "KILN" /kɪln/

## Noun

1. A heated chamber, oven, or furnace used to harden, burn, dry, or process materials such as clay, bricks, grain, or tobacco.
   - Simple: A very hot oven used to harden, dry, or bake things like clay pots, bricks, or grain.
   - _The studio's electric kiln fires pottery at over twelve hundred degrees Celsius._
   - _Workers stacked seasoned timber inside the kiln to dry it before milling._

## Verb

2. To bake or fire something in a kiln, hardening or drying it with sustained heat.
   - Simple: To heat something in a special hot oven to make it hard or dry.
   - _Artisans kiln the glazed pottery a second time to set the colors._
   - _The timber was kilned to remove moisture before it could be sold as lumber._

## Origin

From Middle English "kilne," from Old English "cyln" ("large oven, kiln"), which came from Latin "culina" ("kitchen, kitchen stove").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/kiln (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).