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kiln / kiln; kil/ • n. a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying, esp. one for calcining lime or firing pottery.• v. [tr.] burn, bake, or dry in a kiln.ORIGIN: Old English cylene, from Latin culina ‘kitchen, cooking stove.’

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kiln

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kiln OE. cylene — L. culīna kitchen, cooking-stove.

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