Kiln
Pronunciation
- GenAm IPA: /kɪln/, /kɪl/
- Rhymes: -ɪln, -ɪl
- Note: the traditional pronunciation is being increasingly replaced by the spelling pronunciation (though, to be fair, the claim that the n-less pronunciation is traditional and that the other is but a spelling pronunciation isn't really much more than weasel-wording. The fact remains that the "n" was pronounced in Old English likely in Middle English as well, meaning that the n-pronouncing pronunciation is in fact older than the purported "traditional" pronunciation.)
Origin
From Middle English kilne, from Old English cylene or cyline ("large oven"), from Latin culīna ("kitchen, kitchen stove"), introduced by the Romans to England in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
Full definition of kiln
Noun
kiln
(plural kilns)- 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.
- 2006, w, Internal Combustion Chapter 2, 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.
Anagrams
Verb
- To bake in a kiln.When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.