kiln
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1. kiln - Noun
2. kiln - Verb
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A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.
A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
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A chimney stack improves the air flow or draw of the kiln, thus burning the fuel more completely.
A continuous kiln, sometimes called a tunnel kiln, is a long structure in which only the central portion is directly heated.
An updraft kiln has shelves that trap heat.
After the firing is completed, both the kiln and the ware are cooled.
After two years, Fuller sold the bridge to Myron C. Lake, who continued to develop the community with the addition of a grist mill, kiln, and livery stable to the hotel and eating house.
An alkaline solution (" milk of lime " and carbon dioxide from the lime kiln) then serves to precipitate impurities (see carbonatation ).