kiln
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.
A kind of
- furnace
Kinds of kiln
- dry kiln
Related words
- brickkiln
- kilnhole
- kilnlike
- kilnman
- anagama kiln
- bottle kiln
- climbing kiln
- dragon kiln
- limekiln
- malt-kiln
- mid-kiln
- Ru kiln
Word history
From Latin "culīna" (kitchen, kitchen stove).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “kiln” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.