kiln
pronunciation
How to pronounce kiln in British English:
UK [kɪln]
How to pronounce kiln in American English:
US [kɪln, kɪl]
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- Noun:
- a large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
Word Origin
- kiln
- kiln: [OE] Etymologically a kiln is for ‘cooking’, not for burning or drying. Its distant ancestor was Latin coquīna ‘kitchen’, a derivative of the verb coquere ‘cook’. This produced an unexplained variant culīna (source of English culinary [17]), which was used not only for ‘kitchen’, but also for ‘cooking-stove’. Old English adopted it as cylene, which has become modern English kiln.=> cook, culinary, kitchen
- kiln (n.)
- Old English cyln, cylen "kiln, oven," from Latin culina "kitchen, cooking stove," unexplained variant of coquere "to cook" (see cook (n.)). Old Norse kylna, Welsh cilin probably are from English.
Example
- 1. Toys are burnt in an electric kiln .
- 2. Moving a potter 's wheel and kiln is no easy task .
- 3. The " wood " panels on the front of the island are actuallyrecycled ceramic kiln shelves that heath offers as part of his tile collection .
- 4. A pottery kiln has been in the same local family for 25 generations .
- 5. This process , known as pyrolysis , creates rather than consumes energy , as more combustible gases are released than are needed to heat up the kiln .