a furnace or oven for drying, burning, or baking something, as bricks, grain, or pottery
transitive verb
to dry, burn, or bake in a kiln
See kiln in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(kĭln, kĭl)
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.