kiln

From Middle English kilne, from Old English cylene or cyline (“large oven”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɪl(n)/

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• Rhymes: -ɪl, -ɪln

kiln (plural kilns)

1. An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:

     One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

kiln (third-person singular simple present kilns, present participle kilning, simple past and past participle kilned)

1. To bake in a kiln.

   When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.

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