| NOUN | artifact | kiln | a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks |
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| Sounds | kih'ln | |
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| Rhymes | Milne | |
| Meaning | A furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks. | |
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| Narrower | brickkiln | A kiln for making bricks |
| dry kiln | A kiln for drying and seasoning lumber | |
| limekiln | A kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime | |
| muffle | A kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature | |
| oast | A kiln for drying hops | |
| Broader | furnace | An enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. |
| Spanish | horno, kiln | |
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