Kiln
[kɪln]
Definition
(noun.) a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
Checker: Marsha--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.
(n.) A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
Editor: Stacy
Definition
n. a large oven in which corn bricks hops &c. are dried: bricks placed for burning.—v.t. Kiln′-dry to dry in a kiln.—n. Kiln′-hole the mouth of a kiln.
Edited by Abraham
Examples
- Young lady, if my master don't fall out with me, I'll look down by the kiln by and by, where the boy will be most like, and again in the morning! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was another half-hour before I drew near to the kiln. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The white vapor of the kiln was passing from us as we went by, and as I had thought a prayer before, I thought a thanksgiving now. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The principal United States patent on the long kiln was issued October 24, 1905, No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Building the kiln. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Tar coming from kiln. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The story of the kiln, as told by Mr. Mallory, is illustrative of Edison's tendency to upset tradition and make a radical departure from generally accepted ideas. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is self-evident that an ideal kiln would be one that produced the maximum quantity of thoroughly clinkered material with a minimum amount of fuel, labor, and investment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This invention of Mr. Edison has been recognized by the larger cement manufacturers, and there is every prospect now that the entire trade will take licenses under his kiln patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Well, for a year or so the kiln problem was a nightmare to me. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are next turned down to size and selected for quality and weight, after which they are kiln dried and receive a final turning to perfect their formation, then smoothed and finished. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When we started up the plant experimentally, and the long kiln was first put in operation, an output of about four hundred barrels in twenty-four hours was obtained. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The operation is continuous, a constant supply of chalk passing in at one end of the kiln and a continuous dribble of clinker-balls dropping out at the other. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thus great quantities of green brick can at any time be pushed into the kiln on tracks, and when burned pushed out, and thus the process may go on continuously day and night. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- After having gone over this matter several times, he said: 'I believe I can make a kiln which will give an output of one thousand barrels in twenty-four hours. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One of these consists of the crushing and grinding machinery, and the other of the long kilns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In some great kilns fires are never allowed to cease. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The kilns were burning, and a stifling vapour set towards us with a pale-blue glare. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The standard kilns then in use were about sixty feet in length, with an internal diameter of about five feet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Besides, the oncoming material would thus be gradually raised in temperature instead of being heated abruptly, as in the shorter kilns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This ground material passes through kilns and comes out in clinker. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Consequently other means than the slow processes of nature to dry brick and other ceramics, and the crude kilns are giving way to modern heat distributing structures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Kilns are usually arranged with a slight incline, at the upper end of which the chalk is fed in and gradually works its way down to the interior flame of burning fuel at the other end. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Inventions in the line of pottery kilns have received the aid of woman. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Old plants are lengthening their kilns wherever practicable, and no wide-awake manufacturer building a modern plant could afford to install other than these long kilns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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