Definition of kiln Kiln

/kɪˈln/ - [kiln] - kiln

We found 9 definitions of kiln from 7 different sources.

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What does kiln mean?

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: kilns

kiln - a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
  furnace an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
  brickkiln a kiln for making bricks
  dry kiln a kiln for drying and seasoning lumber
  limekiln a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime
  muffle a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • kiln (n.)
    A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.
  • kiln (n.)
    A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • kiln
    kil, n. a large oven in which corn, bricks, hops, &c. are dried: bricks placed for burning.—v.t. Kiln′-dry, to dry in a kiln.—n. Kiln′-hole, the mouth of a kiln. [A.S. cyln (Ice. kylna, a drying-house for corn)—L. culina, a kitchen.]

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book

  • kiln
    The dockyard building wherein planks are steamed for the purpose of bending them to round the extremities of a ship.

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  • A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber or oven in which a controlled temperature regime is produced.

Part of speech

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  • kiln, verb, present, 1st person singular of kiln (infinitive).
  • kiln, verb (infinitive).
  • kiln, noun, singular of kilns.

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