Top-hat kiln: an intermittent kiln of a type sometimes used to fire pottery. The ware is set on a refractory hearth, or plinth, over which a box-shaped cover is lowered.

: an oven, furnace, or heated enclosure used for processing a substance by burning, firing, or drying. Did you know? The word kiln was kindled in Old English as a bundle of c-y-l-n.

Today kilns are found everywhere from industry to classrooms. Their main function is to create enough heat to temporarily or permanently change the physical structure of Clay, Glass and …

/ kɪln, kɪl / Add to word list a type of large oven (= box in which things are cooked or heated) used for making bricks and clay objects hard after they have been shaped (Definition of kiln from the …

kiln, oven for firing, drying, baking, hardening, or burning a substance, particularly clay products but originally also grain and meal. The brick kiln was a major advance in ancient technology …

A kiln is a special kind of oven for firing things like pottery and bricks. A ceramic artist might use a kiln once a week to fire the bowls he's made from clay.

Later, potters developed heated devices called kilns to control the necessary firing conditions. She found the kiln would also fire glass, so she started experimenting in that medium. That's …