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lime kiln

lime kiln is the alternative form of limekiln.

Meaning of limekiln

Noun

limekiln (plural limekilns)

  1. A furnace used to produce lime (quicklime and slaked lime) from limestone.
    • Thou mightst as well say I love to walk by the Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek of a lime-kiln.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. (figuratively, obsolete) A burning sensation.
    • Now, the rotten diseases of the south, the guts-griping, ruptures, catarrhs, loads o’ gravel i’ the back, lethargies, cold palsies, raw eyes, dirt-rotten livers, wheezing lungs, bladders full of imposthume, sciaticas, limekilns i’ the palm, incurable bone-ache, and the rivelled fee-simple of the...c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Forms of lime kiln

plurallime kilns

Questions about lime kiln

What is lime kiln the alternative form of?
Lime kiln is the alternative form of limekiln.

Words near lime kiln in the dictionary

  1. lime disease
  2. lime green
  3. lime greens
  4. lime juice
  5. lime juices
  6. lime kiln
  7. lime kilns
  8. lime lesson
  9. lime lessons
  10. lime mortar
  11. lime mortars

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