Kiln

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  • noun. Any of various ovens for hardening, burning, or drying substances such as grain, meal, or clay, especially a brick-lined oven used to bake or fire ceramics.
  • transitive verb. To process in one of these ovens.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To dry or burn in a kiln.
  • noun. A furnace or oven for drying, baking, or burning.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything
  • noun. A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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 smelting ores.
  • verb. To bake in a kiln.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
  • Word Usage
    "A further development of traditional smoking techniques is the adoption of the West African banda kiln known as the “Ivory Coast kiln”."
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    furnace  
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    Milne  
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    kilned  kilning  kilns