KILN

n. oven or furnace in which various substances are baked or dried (i.e. bricks, ceramic tiles, etc.)

Kilns are thermally insulated chambers, or ovens, in which a controlled temperature regimes are produced. They are used to harden, burn or dry materials. Specific uses include:To dry green lumber so that the lumber can be used immediatelyDrying wood for use as firewoodHeating wood to the point of pyrolysis to produce charcoalFor annealing, fusing and deforming glass For cremation (at high temperature)Drying of tobacco leavesFiring of certain materials to form ceramic materialsDrying malted barley for brewing
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Noun
1. a large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
(hypernym) oven
(hyponym) brickkiln

(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.
  

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