Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Kiln

Kiln (kiln or kil) , noun

[Old English kilne, kulne, Anglo-Saxon cyln, cylen; akin to Icelandic 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.