kiln

Meaning

Noun

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

To bake in a kiln; to fire.

Synonyms

furnace

oven

stove

drier

incinerator

cremate

drying oven

gloom

sear

tingle

kilning

cremation chamber

batch drier

dry furnace

plate dryer

drying oven baker

brickkiln

baking furnace

burn

burn down

calcine

char

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɪl(n)/

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.