English Explanatory Dictionary

kiln

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
verb
  1. To bake in a kiln; to fire.

Pronunciation

/kɪln/ /kɪl/ En-us-ne-kiln.ogg En-us-kiln.ogg

Word forms

kiln kilns kill kilning kilned

Etymology

From Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, cylen, cylin (“large oven, kiln”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”). Middle English -ln(e) usually becomes modern -ll as in mill. The pronunciation /kɪln/ may be based on dialects in which this simplification did not take place, but it must have been at least reinforced by spelling pronunciation.

Derived words

anagama kiln bottle kiln brickkiln climbing kiln dragon kiln Ju kiln kilnhole kilnlike kilnman limekiln malt-kiln mid-kiln Ru kiln
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