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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kiln \Kiln\, n. [OE. kilne, kulne AS cyln, cylen akin to
Icel. kylna; prob. from the same source as coal. See {Coal}.]
1. 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.
2. A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
kiln
n : a large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as
porcelain or bricks
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Kiln, MS (CDP, FIPS 37600)
Location: 30.41654 N, 89.43423 W
Population (1990): 1262 (641 housing units)
Area: 34.5 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
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