Meaning of kiln | Babel Free

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1. An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
2. Any of various ovens for hardening, burning, or drying substances such as grain, meal, or clay, especially a brick-lined oven used to bake or fire ceramics.
3. To process in one of these ovens.
4. A chamber in which clay is fired.
5. a type of large oven for baking pottery or bricks, drying grain etc. steenoond أتون، فُرْن пещ fornalha pec der Brennofen ovn καμίνι horno põletusahi کوره uuni fourכבשן ईंटों का भट्टा peć za pečenje (vapna, opeke) égetőkemence pembakaran (leir)brennsluofn fornace かま (벽돌 등을 굽는) 가마 krosnis ceplis tanur oven brenne-/tegl-/tørkeovn piec do wypalania بټي،د خښتو داش،كوره fornalha cuptor de ardere печь pec žgalna peč peć za pečenje grnčarije brännugn เตาเผา tuğla ocağı, fırın 窯，乾燥爐 сушильна, випалюв...
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6. (Ceramics) a large oven for burning, drying, or processing something, such as porcelain or bricks
7. (Ceramics) (tr) to fire or process in a kiln
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8. a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, esp. one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
9. to burn, bake, or treat in a kiln.
10. n (for baking, burning) → (Brenn)ofen m; (for minerals) → Röst- or Kiesofen m; (for drying bricks etc) → Trockenofen m; (for hops etc) → Darre f, → Darrofen m
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Examples

“One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.”

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