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kiln

[kil, kiln] / kɪl, kɪln /
NOUN
oven
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At a cavernous facility in Morbi, in India's western Gujarat state, a 200-metre-long propane-powered kiln that normally fires clay nonstop is silent.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

With funds from a wartime grant, a small room off the main space was outfitted with pottery wheels, work tables and a kiln, and stocked with blocks of clay, paint and other art supplies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

It was during that time that she invested in an electric kiln, built a slab where the kiln now sits and enclosed it in a shed.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

I became addicted to the feel of clay, the triumph-failure cycle of the wheel, the loop-de-loop of joy and horror when pieces finally emerged from the kiln.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024

Mrs. Levy herself, during a ceramics phase, had once commandeered one of the furnaces for a kiln.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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