kiln
An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning,…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.
» Electric kilns allow easy temperature control.
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1 sensesAn 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.
Brennofen, Dörrofen, Darre
суши́льная печьsušílʹnaja pečʹ, печь для о́бжига и су́шкиpečʹ dlja óbžiga i súški
a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
Examples
3 sentencesElectric kilns allow easy temperature control.
I used to make ash trays in a kiln at school.
I like to scratch fake language into clay, fire it up in a kiln and bury it in random places.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, cylen, cylin (“large oven, kiln”), fromFrom Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, cylen, cylin (“large oven, kiln”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).
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