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limekilns

limekilns is the plural 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...

Proper noun capitalized: Limekilns

Limekilns

  1. A locality in the Bathurst council area, central eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  2. A coastal village in Fife, Scotland.

Origin of limekilns

In each case, a proprialization from limekilns, named for limekilns formerly operational in the area.

Questions about limekilns

What does limekilns mean?
Limekilns means a locality in the Bathurst council area, central eastern New South Wales, Australia.
What is limekilns the plural of?
Limekilns is the plural of limekiln.
What part of speech is limekilns?
Limekilns is a proper noun.

Words near limekilns in the dictionary

  1. limehouses
  2. Limehousing
  3. limejuice
  4. limejuices
  5. limekiln
  6. limekilns
  7. limeless
  8. limelight
  9. limelighted
  10. limelighter
  11. limelighters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: limekilns (page history and authors); Limekilns (page history and authors); limekiln (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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