KILN

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.

2.
n.

A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.


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