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Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia: historic tobacco kiln

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.

kiln (plural kilns)

  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.
    Hyponyms: anagama kiln, bottle kiln, brickkiln, climbing kiln, dragon kiln, limekiln, malt-kiln, Ru kiln
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎[1]:
      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.

oven, furnace or heated chamber

kiln (third-person singular simple present kilns, present participle kilning, simple past and past participle kilned)

  1. (transitive) To bake in a kiln; to fire.
    When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.

From English kiln, from Middle English kilne, from Old English cylene or cyline (“large oven”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).

kiln (plural **kiln-kiln)

  1. (archaeology) kiln, 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
    Synonyms: dapur, kiln, tanur, tungku
    Synonym: tanur (Standard Malay)