Other forms: kilns
A kiln is the oven in which pottery is baked hard. Fire the kiln, a wood-fired kiln, load the kiln.
It reaches a thousand degrees and more, and what comes out depends on the temperature, the time and whether air is let in, so two identical pots fired differently look nothing alike. Kilns also dry timber, burn lime and make bricks and cement.
1nounkilnThe oven in which pottery is baked hard.
“The potter put the clay bowls in the kiln to harden overnight.”
kiln is an oven.
Old English cyln comes from Latin culina, a kitchen or stove. The n was once silent in speech.
Proto-Indo-European
*pekʷ-
Latin
culīna — kitchen, kitchen stove
Old English
cyln
Middle English
kilne
English, today
kiln
Built from
From Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, cylen, cylin (“large oven, kiln”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”). -ln(e) usually becomes modern -ll as in mill. The pronunciation may be based on dialects in which this simplification did not take place, but it must have been at least reinforced by.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA