kiln

English
Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia: historic tobacco kiln

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Middle English -ln(e) usually becomes modern -ll as in mill. The pronunciation /kɪln/ may be based on dialects in which this simplification did not take place, but it must have been at least reinforced by spelling pronunciation.

Pronunciation

Noun

kiln (plural kilns)

  1. 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.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:
      One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

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Verb

kiln (third-person singular simple present kilns, present participle kilning, simple past and past participle kilned)

  1. To bake in a kiln; to fire.
    When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From English kiln, from Middle English kilne, from Old English cylene or cyline (“large oven”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkɪln], [ˈkɪlə̆n]
  • Hyphenation: kiln

Noun

kiln (first-person possessive kilnku, second-person possessive kilnmu, third-person possessive kilnnya)

  1. (archaeology) kiln, 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.
    Synonyms: dapur, kiln, tanur, tungku
    Synonym: tanur (Standard Malay)

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