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单词 lime-kiln
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lime-kilnn.

Brit. /ˈlʌɪmkɪln/, U.S. /ˈlaɪmˌkɪl(n)/
Forms: see lime n.1 and kiln n.; also 1500s lyme kylme, 1600s limbekill.
a. A kiln in which lime is made by calcining limestone.
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1296 in W. H. D. Longstaffe & J. Booth Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (1889) 6 Septem acras terræ apud limkilne.
1355–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 557 Et in 1 Lymkilne comburend. apud Pytingdon, 14s. 6d.
1509 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 112 Ye hygheway from ye lyme kylle.
1580 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Dial. Yron in Ioyfull Newes (new ed.) f. 145 Put them into an Ouen, lyke to a lyme keele.
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. iii. 74 As hatefull to me As the reake of a lime kill.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 314 Wormes..which are wont to doe much hurt to Fornaces and Limbekills where they make Limbe.
1692 London Gaz. No. 2828/2 They destroyed their famous Lime Kill.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 82 Resembling those places in England where there have been anciently Lime-kilns.
1859 A. Cary Pictures Country Life 16 A pile of dry stones that had once been a lime-kiln.
1892 H. Nisbet Bushranger's Sweetheart xviii. 136 ‘That infernal “swanky” has left me as dry as a lime-kiln’, cried out my companion.
attributive.c1547 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 726 A key of ye lyme kylne doore.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. A5 Now the rotten diseases of the south... Sciaticaes lime-kills ith' palme,..take and take againe such preposterous discoueries. View more context for this quotation
1845 E. B. Barrett Let. 21 Nov. in Lett. R. Browning & E. B. Barrett (1899) I. 289 The great Law lime-kiln dries human souls all to one colour.
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