kiln

Meanings

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.

Origin

• From Middle English kilne, from Old English cylene or cyline, from Latin culīna ("kitchen, kitchen stove").