kiln Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks

WordNet

Kiln noun
Etymology
OE.kilne, kulne, AS. cyln, cylen; akin to Icel. kylna; prob. from the same source as coal. See Coal.
Definitions
  1. A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.
  2. A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.

Webster 1913