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noun

a furnace or oven for drying, burning, or baking something, as bricks, grain, or pottery

Origin: ME kylne < OE cylne < L culina, cookstove, kitchen

transitive verb

to dry, burn, or bake in a kiln

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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.

transitive verb kilned, kiln·ing, kilns

To process in one of these ovens.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English kilne

Origin: , from Old English cyln

Origin: , from Latin culīna, kitchen, stove; see pek^w- in Indo-European roots

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