kiln

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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.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kɪln/, /kɪl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪln, -ɪl
• Homophone: kill (for the pronunciation /kɪl/)

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.

   Hyponyms: anagama kiln, bottle kiln, brickkiln, climbing kiln, dragon kiln, limekiln, malt-kiln, Ru kiln

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     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.

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.

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.

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

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

kiln (plural kiln-kiln)

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)

• “kiln” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.