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kiln

kɪln
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Winter landscape with skaters in the foreground and a burning lime kiln and a few farms in the background.
Winter landscape with skaters in the foreground and a burning lime kiln and a few farms in the background.
  1. (n) kiln
    a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
Illustrations
Construction of the mill station and the lime kiln for the factory, October 1926. Part of the photo album with photos of the construction of the sugar factory in Goenoengsari on East Java by the Handels Vereniging Amsterdam 1926-1927.
Construction of the mill station and the lime kiln for the factory, October 1926. Part of the photo album with photos of the construction of the sugar factory in Goenoengsari on East Java by the Handels Vereniging Amsterdam 1926-1927.
Landscape with lime kilns along the Spaarne to the south of Haarlem in a stormy rain shower. Two figures walk in the foreground on the right. Fifth print from a series of six.
Landscape with lime kilns along the Spaarne to the south of Haarlem in a stormy rain shower. Two figures walk in the foreground on the right. Fifth print from a series of six.
The bottom of the lime kiln, August 1927. With Javanese workers. Part of the photo album with photos of the construction of the sugar factory in Goenoengsari on East Java by the Handels Vereniging Amsterdam 1926-1927.
The bottom of the lime kiln, August 1927. With Javanese workers. Part of the photo album with photos of the construction of the sugar factory in Goenoengsari on East Java by the Handels Vereniging Amsterdam 1926-1927.
Row of houses and lime kiln.
Row of houses and lime kiln.
To the left is a large burning lime kiln. People walk or rest on the quay. A fisherman moors his boat. This print is part of a loose group of eleven prints, of which only numbers 1-6 (later?) Are numbered.
To the left is a large burning lime kiln. People walk or rest on the quay. A fisherman moors his boat. This print is part of a loose group of eleven prints, of which only numbers 1-6 (later?) Are numbered.
View of the buildings of the lime kiln built in the forest near Kedoeng-Djattie. In the left background a building with inscription NIS [M] 1865 Carolina. With Javanese workers and European overseers. Album page with pasted photo, part of the photo album about the construction of the Semarang - Kedoeng Djattie (Kedungjati) railway line on Java in 1865.
View of the buildings of the lime kiln built in the forest near Kedoeng-Djattie. In the left background a building with inscription NIS [M] 1865 Carolina. With Javanese workers and European overseers. Album page with pasted photo, part of the photo album about the construction of the Semarang - Kedoeng Djattie (Kedungjati) railway line on Java in 1865.
Men working at tile kilns along a river; in the background, on the river bank, piles of baked-off tiles. Depiction enclosed by a green border of bamboo trunks.
Men working at tile kilns along a river; in the background, on the river bank, piles of baked-off tiles. Depiction enclosed by a green border of bamboo trunks.
Workers are hard at work at a large lime kiln, which stands on the edge of a river. A group of workers pauses in front of the furnace; they eat and have conversations. Two cows and two boats on the waterfront. In the background a church, a bridge and many houses.
Workers are hard at work at a large lime kiln, which stands on the edge of a river. A group of workers pauses in front of the furnace; they eat and have conversations. Two cows and two boats on the waterfront. In the background a church, a bridge and many houses.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Kiln
    A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) kiln
    A furnace or oven for drying, baking, or burning. Kilns may be divided into two chief classes: those for direct burning, in which the material is submitted to the action of flame, the fuel and material being mingled together in one furnace; and those for vitrifying, drying, and baking, in which the material is separated from the furnace proper. The lime-kiln represents the first class. It consists of an upright furnace resembling a blast-furnace, the limestone and fuel being fed into the top and the burned lime or quicklime being drawn below. (See lime.) To the second class belong the pottery-kilns, brick-kilns, and porcelain-kilns. The pottery- and porcelain-kilns, which include also terra-cotta, drain-pipe, and other similar kilns, consist of a structure, usually of brick, circular in section and cone-shaped, the furnaces being arranged around the edge below, and the hollow space within being filled with the materials to be burned or vitrified. In the common pottery-kiln the materials are exposed directly to the flames from the furnaces. In the kilns for finer ware the materials are protected from direct contact with the fires. Drying-kilns for malt, hops, grain, lumber, etc., are strictly dry-houses or drying-rooms, though sometimes called kilns, Fruit-kilns are now superseded by evaporators. Brick-kilns are properly distinguished from brick-clamps by the fact that the furnace is a permanent structure. See brick.
  2. kiln
    To dry or burn in a kiln.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Kiln
    kil a large oven in which corn, bricks, hops, &c. are dried: bricks placed for burning
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. kilne, kulne, AS. cyln, cylen,; akin to Icel. kylna,; prob. from the same source as coal,. See Coal

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. cyln (Ice. kylna, a drying-house for corn)—L. culina, a kitchen.

Usage in the news

Big Rig Accident 49 and Lime Kiln . knco.com

Traffic was backed up for miles due to a Big Rig over the embankment of highway 49 northbound south of Lime Kiln road shortly before 9 o'clock Monday morning. knco.com

Auburn Man Injured in Lime Kiln Accident. knco.com

Bo Bedilion, an assistant professor of art at Columbia College, looks at the flames coming from the kiln on Nov 11. columbiamissourian.com

The fire in the kiln needs to be lit for eight to 10 hours for the pottery to cook thoroughly. columbiamissourian.com

In the course of Friday afternoon and evening, maybe 20 or 25 people show up to help keep the flames going, including Cindy Hoskisson, the kiln 's longtime fire manager. oregonlive.com

At Kiln , At Loom In New Hampshire. nytimes.com

Lime kiln dust is an economical option for full-depth reclamation projects. pwmag.com

According to the company, The Peep Show is a brilliant scheme set in motion by Skutt Ceramic Products Inc to shamelessly promote its kilns while at the same time developing a private collection of the most valuable Peep Hole Plugs on earth. ceramicindustry.com

EPA Regulations Give Kilns Permission To Pollute . cbe.org

If to hold water, then you need one that has been high-fired—the higher the temperature of the kiln, the more sealed the clay. blackenterprise.com

Temperature distribution in a kiln can be affected by many different factors, including. ceramicindustry.com

Datapaq recently announced the availability of its Kiln Tracker RF telemetry system, a real-time profiling system for monitoring temperatures during the firing process. ceramicindustry.com

Profiling Kiln Temperature with Telemetry . ceramicindustry.com

A new telemetry -based kiln profiling system can provide the ability to accurately monitor temperature profiles in real time. ceramicindustry.com

Usage in scientific papers

Industrial examples appear in the transportation, processing and storage of materials in systems such as rotary kilns, tumbling mixers, and feeding and discharge of silos.
Surface Granular flows: Two Related Examples

Usage in literature

Several thousand dollars of his surplus he had invested in charcoal-kilns near Baltimore. "Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14)" by Elbert Hubbard

Not our quarries and kilns, but others five times as far away. "Aladdin & Co." by Herbert Quick

Founder's house, Minecracker's cabin, a Mine Kiln. "Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean" by H. G. Nicholls

Kilner, from kiln, Lat. "The Romance of Names" by Ernest Weekley

Mr. 'Possum said it smelt a good deal like Mr. Man's lime-kiln on a wet morning. "Hollow Tree Nights and Days" by Albert Bigelow Paine

Some is burned in kilns of cheap construction, but a traveler through a limestone country finds few such kilns now in use. "Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement" by Alva Agee

When it goes out they let several more days go by for the kiln to cool, and then take out the saggers. "Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls" by Anonymous

What would become of the boy and little missy if he were to die there in the kiln before morning? "Two Little Travellers" by Frances Browne Arthur

Peat is either charred in pits and heaps, or in kilns. "Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel" by Samuel William Johnson

Is thy belly a lime-kiln? "The Dragon of Wantley" by Owen Wister

Usage in poetry
Dochter Peggy sat on the kiln,
An', ere she was aware,
Cam' ridin' roun' Pinwinnie wud
Sax black dragoons, an' mair.
"Ballad of The New Monkland Martyr" by Janet Hamilton
Dochter Peggy sat on the kiln,
An' watch'd owre her faither's life,
For he had been at Both'ell brig,
An' joined in the bluidy strife.
"Ballad of The New Monkland Martyr" by Janet Hamilton
Dochter Peggy stood on the kiln,
An' turn'd her roun' an' roun'—
The sicht she saw gaed thro' her heart
Wi' a deep an' deadly stoun.
"Ballad of The New Monkland Martyr" by Janet Hamilton
In the desire of your red lips
My heart has become a red kiln, like a terrace of roses.
It is because she does not trouble about the bee on the rose
That my heart is taken.
"Ghazal Of Sayyid Kamal" by Edward Powys Mathers
But there’s truth in the heart of the maid of Mango,
Though her cheeks is black like the kiln-baked cork,
As she sets in the shade o’ the whingo-whango
A-waitin’ for me — with a knife and fork.
"The Constant Cannibal Maid" by Wallace Irwin
And when the public-houses there were blazing like a kiln,
She cried, " Now, my friends, we'll march to the Bonnet Hill,
And we'll fire the dens of iniquity without dismay,
Therefore let's march on, my friends, without delay."
"The Destroying Angel or The Poet's Dream" by William Topaz McGonagall