Hypertext Webster Gateway: "kiln"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Kiln \Kiln\, n. [OE. kilne, kulne, AS. cyln, cylen; akin to
Icel. kylna; prob. from the same source as coal. See {Coal}.]
1. 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. A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
kiln
n : a large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as
porcelain or bricks
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