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A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.

Vapor; steam; smoke; fume. As hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln. Shak.

Metal.), the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. -- Tunnel net, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. -- Tunnel pit, Tunnel shaft, a pit or shaft sunk fro…