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单词 kiln
释义

kiln

/kɪln /
noun
A furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying, especially one for calcining lime or firing pottery.Photographs of winding towers and cooling towers, of silos, lime kilns and blast furnaces, of coal bunkers and gravel plants....
  • The site contains several scheduled monuments, including beehive coking ovens, calcining kilns, blowing engine houses, and a unique lift tower which was used to transport material to the top of the furnaces.
  • In 1987, excavations in the Calle Pureza in Triana, the pottery district of Seville, brought to light a collapsed kiln full of pottery wasters.

Origin

Old English cylene, from Latin culina 'kitchen, cooking stove'.

  • The words kiln and culinary (mid 17th century) come from the Latin word culina ‘kitchen, cooking stove’.

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