| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  k ln, kl |
| NOUN: | 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. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: kilned, kiln·ing, kilns
To process in one of these ovens. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, from Latin cul na, kitchen, stove. See pekw- in Appendix I.
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