Meaning

1 senses

  1. To bake in a kiln; to fire.

    When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Electric kilns allow easy temperature control.

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  2. I used to make ash trays in a kiln at school.

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  3. I like to scratch fake language into clay, fire it up in a kiln and bury it in random places.

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Origin

From Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, cylen, cylin (“large oven, kiln”), from

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

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Forms

kilns, kilning, kilned, kilned
Base formkiln · to kiln
3rd person singularkilns
Present participlekilning
Past simplekilned
Past participlekilned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theykiln
he, she, itkilns

Past simpleLesson

all personskilned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave kilned
he, she, ithas kilned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill kiln

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
killerA2killingB1killjoykilogramA2kilometreA2kilowattkilt
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