Definition of kilns Kilns
/kɪˈlnz/ - [kilnz] -
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What does kilns mean?
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- kilns (Noun)
Plural of kiln.
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| 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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Wiktionary
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 📕
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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 ⛵
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kiln
The dockyard building wherein planks are steamed for the purpose of bending them to round the extremities of a ship.
Wikipedia 
- A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber or oven in which a controlled temperature regime is produced.
