单词 | kiln |
释义 | kiln (once / 4380 pages) n A kiln is a special kind of oven for firing things like pottery and bricks. A ceramic artist might use a kiln once a week to fire the bowls he's made from clay. Some kilns look more like furnaces than ovens, and they reach temperatures far beyond regular household ovens. Electricity is used to power many modern kilns, while others use older techniques of burning wood or even coal. Making mugs and bowls is the primary use of kilns, but there are some that dry lumber, tobacco leaves, or hops as well. The Old English word was cyln, from the Latin root culina, "kitchen or cooking stove." WORD FAMILYkiln: kilns USAGE EXAMPLESA third vigil begins with refreshments at 4 p.m. at Lime Kiln Point State Park in Friday Harbor. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) To get their craft beers into the hands of thirsty customers, the partners contracted to brew batches at Lazy Magnolia Brewing Co. in Kiln. Washington Times(Dec 11, 2016) The business, located on 120 acres, includes five kilns that can each dry 35,000 board feet at a time. Washington Times(Nov 26, 2016) n a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks Hypo|Hyper brickkiln a kiln for making bricks dry kilna kiln for drying and seasoning lumber limekilna kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime mufflea kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature oasta kiln for drying hops furnace an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. |
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