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lime-kiln|ˈlaɪmkɪln|
Forms: see lime n.1 and kiln; also 6 lyme kylme, 7 limbekill.
A kiln in which lime is made by calcining limestone.
1296Durham Halmote Rolls (Surtees) 6 Septem acras terræ apud limkilne. 1355–6Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 557 Et in 1 Lymkilne comburend. apud Pytingdon, 14s. 6d. 1509Bury Wills (Camden) 112 Y⊇ hygheway from y⊇ lyme kylle. 1580Frampton Dial. Yron & Steele in Joyful News (1596) 145 Put them into an Ouen, like to a lyme keele. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. iii. 86 As hatefull to me, as the reeke of a Lime-kill. 1608Bonham in Topsell Serpents 314 Wormes..which are wont to doe much hurt to Fornaces and Limbekills where they make Limbe. 1692Lond. Gaz. No. 2828/2 They destroyed their famous Lime Kill. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 83 Resembling those places in England where there have been anciently Lime-kilns. 1876A. Cary Pict. Country Life i. 16 A pile of dry stones that had once been a lime-kiln. 1892H. Nisbet Bushranger's Sweetheart xviii. 136 ‘That infernal ‘swanky’ has left me as dry as a lime-kiln’, cried out my companion.
attrib.c1547in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 726 A key of y⊇ lyme kylne doore.
b. transf. and fig.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. i. 25 (Qo. 1609) Now the rotten diseases of the south..Sciaticaes, limekills ith' palme,..take and take againe such preposterous discoueries! 1845E. B. Barrett in Lett. R. Browning (1899) I. 289 The great Law lime-kiln dries human souls all to one colour. |