Definition of "kiln" []

• Any of various ovens for hardening, burning, or drying substances such as grain, meal, or clay, especially a brick-lined oven used to bake or fire ceramics. (noun)
• To process in one of these ovens. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A further development of traditional smoking techniques is the adoption of the West African banda kiln known as the “Ivory Coast kiln”."
• "Without the kiln, which is designed to reach the perfect temperature to cause the clay to harden, the piece of clay would remain useless."
• "The operation of a vertical-shaft kiln, which is the heart of the process, is such that negligible emission takes place as the shaft kiln itself acts as an effective filter."