kiln
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kiln
- /kɪln/ UK
- /kɪl/ UK, dated
- /kɪln/ US
Sounds like kill (for /kɪl/) · Rhymes with -ɪln, -ɪl
Where it comes from
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.
noun kilns · kill
- 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. 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.
verb kilns · kilning · kilned · kill
- To bake in a kiln; to fire. When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.
