kiln
IPA: kˈɪɫn
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.
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Examples of "kiln" in Sentences
- The colour inside the kiln is a good indicator of the temperature.
- The fabrication of the kiln is a skilled operation, and so is the firing process.
- The top surface of the kiln is a flat steel sheet made by flattening old oil drums.
- Before beginning to build a field kiln, which is sometimes called a scove kiln, it is necessary to know the following:
- High ground is selected for the site of the kiln, which is a rectangular wooden chamber 1.8 m high and open at the top.
- A further development of traditional smoking techniques is the adoption of the West African banda kiln known as the Ivory Coast kiln.
- Without the kiln, which is designed to reach the perfect temperature to cause the clay to harden, the piece of clay would remain useless.
- The operation of a vertical-shaft kiln, which is the heart of the process, is such that negligible emission takes place as the shaft kiln itself acts as an effective filter.
- The latter is a capital-intensive, large-scale continuous kiln, which is outside the scope of this memorandum. 1 Continuous kilns utilise heat from the cooling bricks to pre-heat green bricks and combustion air, or to dry bricks before they are put into the kiln.
- It was found, however, that the flour of maize invariably rotted in a tropical voyage, and thereupon the commodity known as kiln-dried corn was invented at the Brandywine Mills: two hundred bushels would be dried per day on brick floors, and be thought a large amount, though the "pan-kiln" now in use dries two thousand in the same time.
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