Kiln Definition
kĭln, kĭl
kilns
noun
A furnace or oven for drying, burning, or baking something, as bricks, grain, or pottery.
Webster's New World
verb
To process in one of these ovens.
American Heritage
To dry, burn, or bake in a kiln.
Webster's New World
Origin of Kiln
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From Middle English kilne, from Old English cylene or cyline (“large oven”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”), introduced by the Romans to England in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English kilne from Old English cyln from Latin culīna kitchen, stove pekw- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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