kiln

noun
🔊/kɪln/
🔊/kɪln/
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  1. a large oven for baking clay and brick, drying wood and grain, etc.
    • Modern farming methods have made these kilns redundant.现代耕作方法使这些窑成为多余的。
    • The vases are then fired in a kiln.然后把这些花瓶放在窑里烧。
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    Oxford Collocations DictionaryKiln is used after these nouns:
    • pottery
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    Word OriginOld English cylene, from Latin culina ‘kitchen, cooking stove’.