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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Kiln

/(kĭln [or] kĭl)/ · IPA /kɪln/
01 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 k…
  1. 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. 2.
    A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.