kiln
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6.3
- noun
- /kɪln/
- Specialized
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horno
- The potter carefully placed her finished vase into the kiln to harden it.
- brick kiln
- cement kiln
- lime kilns
You know, there were these gigantic kilns where they had them, the massive piles of bricks, some of them stacked up neatly, some of them just like all over the place.
- You know, there were these gigantic kilns where they had them, the massive piles of bricks, some of them stacked up neatly, some of them just like all over the place.
- I once came back to our after party in Ibiza to find Pritchard in our BBQ kiln.
Examples
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Why, it's glazed, as though it had been fired in a kiln.
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I haven't put it in a kiln yet.
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Do you see the kiln... behind me to the left of the factory?
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And I still have to build that kiln.
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"Maybe they had a local kiln operating nearby," he says.
Academic text (2011) -
I could turn this into a kiln for my pottery.
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She even fired her own tiles in a homemade kiln.
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I remember, last year Joey Zhang made a ceramic soccer ball and put it in the kiln.
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A stoker can quickly judge the condition of the kiln atmosphere with a glance at the chimney cap.
Fiction book (1998) -
Smoke belched out of kilns in which bricks were baked and lime burned for mortar.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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4.1
A closed chamber that makes very high heat for melting metal, burning waste or heating buildings
Compounds
How Hot
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kiln comes from very old words meaning an oven or 'furnace' for burning and baking things. Think of a kiln as a very hot oven that hardens clay and bricks, which is why potters put their work in a kiln.