kiln

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a furnace or heated chamber used to fire, bake, calcine, or dry materials such as pottery, bricks, lime, timber, or grain

   The potter left the glazed bowls in the kiln overnight.

2. 2
   verb

   to fire, dry, or process something in a kiln

   The workshop kilns the tiles at a very high temperature.

From Middle English kilne and Old English cyln, borrowed from Latin culina, 'kitchen or cooking stove.' The written final n survives in the modern word, with both kiln and kil pronunciations recorded.

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