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• We should soak the kiln at cone 9 for half an hour.From the entry soak
• After the pots have been glazed, they go back into the kiln for a second firing.From the entry firing
• The train crawled through an unlovely smokescape of towering chimneys and squatting kilns.2017, Jonathan Tulloch, Larkinland. From the entry smokescape
• Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion. From the entry brush
• Underfiring results when the kiln doesn't reach the cone temperature at which your glaze matures.2001, Mark Burleson, “Glaze Faults”, in Katherine Duncan Aimone, editor, The Ceramic Glaze Handbook: Materials, Techniques, Formulas…. From the entry underfiring
• More unusually, in Cyprus, Colombia and the Canaries individual potters have their own kilns.2000, Moira Vincentelli, “Gender, Technology and Technique”, in Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels, Manchester; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry bonfiring
• The kiln site actually responsible for such refinement has so far not been located.[1982, Jenifer Neils, editor, The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Indiana University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry Zhejiang
• Excessive heating in the kiln may produce misshapen bricks known as crozzles.1938, William Barr McKay, McKay's Building Construction. From the entry crozzle
• I use an electric kiln strictly for bisquing my pots.2018, Melissa Weiss, Handbuilt, A Potter's Guide, page 147. From the entry bisque
• The Arran coal was used for heating saltpans to produce salt from sea water, and also to fire limestone kilns.2013, Con Gillen, Geology and landscapes of Scotland, →ISBN. From the entry panhouse
• Several kilns set up in competition to manufacture Lung-chhüan-style wares.[2004, Rose Kerr, Nigel Wood, edited by Rose Kerr, Science and Civilization in China, volume 5, number 12, Cambridge University Press…. From the entry Liangzihu
• Kugels were factory products, made in a glass kiln.2000, Karal Ann Marling, “The Christmas Business”, in Merry Christmas! Celebrating America’s Greatest Holiday, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard…. From the entry kugel
• Completion of the railroad allowed heavy machinery to be brought to the mine, including a 40-meter rotary kiln.1998, Paul Garvin, Iowa's minerals: their occurrence, origins, industries, and lore. From the entry heavy machinery
• An overfired glaze may run off the object onto the kiln shelf or form a pool of glaze inside a pot.1996, Yvonne Hutchinson Cuff, Ceramic Technology for Potters and Sculptors, London: A & C Black; Philadelphia, Pa.: University of…. From the entry overfired
• A number of kiln sites have been found — Chiu-yen and Te-ch'ing in Che-chiang, and Nan-tai in Fu-chien.1973, George Kuwayama, Chinese Ceramics: The Heeramaneck Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 9. From the entry Che-chiang
• This 14 inch high bottle, fired to cone 10 in an electric kiln, has oilspots on a chartreuse glaze.1968, Thomas G. Supensky, Ceramic Art in the School Program, Worcester, Mass.: Davis Publications, →LCCN, page 84. From the entry oilspot
• The dry lumber was pulled from the kiln and held in the roughdry shed for a day or two before unstacking.1959, Research Notes - Volume 173, page 2. From the entry roughdry
• These kilns were being used to fire porcelain winepots.1939 June, W. J. Sutton, “W. J. Sutton Writes from Foochow, China”, in The Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society, volume 18, number 6…. From the entry winepot
• The high temperature tends to cause the material to crozzle, which makes it difficult to work in a kiln.1929, Fred Clements, Blast Furnace Practice, volume 1, page 384. From the entry crozzle
• And he’d got a thirst like a lime kiln.1902, Edith Nesbit, chapter 3, in In the Dark: Tales of Terror. From the entry limekiln
• He had a chicory kiln and a couta boat there, both of which he′d built himself, but in my time he scarcely used them.2003, Jan Bassett, The Facing Island: A Personal History, page 5. From the entry couta boat
• The main attraction are the tiles: over twenty thousand of them, constituting such a tall order that the İznik kilns were practically exhausted.1991, Rosie Ayliffe, Marc Dubin, John Gawthrop, Turkey (The Real Guides), Prentice Hall Press, →ISBN, pages 84 and 178. From the entry İznik
• Other kilns in Shaanxi and Henan and other provinces in the North, like Shanxi and Shandong, also produced greenwares during the Song period.1983, Yaw Lu, Mary Tregear, Song Ceramics, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry greenware
• When heated to furiously high temperatures in a kiln, calcium in the limestone and magnesium in the silicate jiggle and switch sides, like participants in a square dance.2025 February 19, Dino Grandoni, “We may be able to trap climate pollution in ordinary rocks. Scientists say they have figured out how to…. From the entry olivine
• Experiencing the visit of my monthly friend at work, I trudged out into the kiln today, across the car park to the little shop in search of some tampons.2011, Becky Wicks, Burqalicious: The Dubai Diaries: A True Story of Sun, Sand, Sex and Secrecy, Skyhorse Publishing, published 2012…. From the entry monthly friend
• To address this question a series of experimental charrings were carried out on modern specimens in a laboratory kiln in an attempt to replicate the archaeological material.2003, Antiquity, page 345. From the entry charring
• Changing firing practices — perhaps simply by placing the vessel facedown in the outdoor bonfirelike kiln — allowed the paint to fire black in a reduced atmosphere.2003, Harry J. Shafer, Mimbres archaeology at the NAN Ranch Ruin, page 38. From the entry bonfirelike
• Another northern site where large numbers of shards have been found but at present no definite evidence of kilns, is Chiao-tso in Northern Honan, visited by Mr.1953, Basil Gray, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London: Faber and Faber, →OCLC, →OL, page 26. From the entry Chiao-tso
• Another well-preserved site from eastern Henan, Mengzhuang in Zhecheng County, yielded evidence of a three- or four-chamber house (Figure 2.8), as well as pottery kilns, and nearby pounded earth foundations."2006, Robert L. Thorp, “Foundations of the Bronze Age: The Erligang Culture”, in China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization…. From the entry Zhecheng

Meaning of kiln

1. noun 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.
2. verb To bake in a kiln; to fire.

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How do you use kiln in a sentence?

Kiln is used as a noun and verb. For example: “When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.”

What is a short sentence with kiln?

“And he’d got a thirst like a lime kiln.”

What does kiln mean?

Kiln means 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.