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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, or drying grain. quotations examples
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.
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
third-person singular simple present kilns, present participle kilning, simple past and past participle kilned
To bake in a kiln; to fire. examples