kiln
noun/kɪln/
/kɪln/
- a large oven for baking clay and brick, drying wood and grain, etc.
- Modern farming methods have made these kilns redundant.
- The vases are then fired in a kiln.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryKiln is used after these nouns:- pottery
Word OriginOld English cylene, from Latin culina ‘kitchen, cooking stove’.Want to learn more?
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