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kilns

kilns is the plural of kiln.

kilns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of kiln.

Meaning of kiln

Noun

kiln (plural kilns)

  1. An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
    • One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion

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Phrases with kilns

Questions about kilns

What is kilns the plural of?
Kilns is the plural of kiln.

Words near kilns in the dictionary

  1. Kilnhurst
  2. kilning
  3. kilnlike
  4. kilnman
  5. kilnmen
  6. kilns
  7. Kilnsea
  8. kilnsite
  9. Kilnwick Percy
  10. kilo
  11. kilo-

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