1. (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.

2. (n.) A furnace for burning bricks; a brick kiln.

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