Crossword clues for limekiln
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Limekiln \Lime"kiln`\ (l[imac]m"k[i^]ln`), n. A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.
Wiktionary
n. A furnace used to produce lime from limestone.
WordNet
n. a kiln used to reduce naturally occuring forms of calcium carbonate to lime
Usage examples of "limekiln".
When Pip has been rescued out in the sluice-house, and saved from the limekiln, he is thankful for his life.
And, indeed, the uncle and the niece having met by chance, ended by consorting together, their favorite refuge, it was thought, being the limekilns in the direction of Les Moulineaux.
Wednesday afternoon on the trial ground past the Limekilns, a long way out of Newmarket.
Just past the Limekilns and before the bridge over the railway line he swung off to the left into a small wood, and stopped as soon as the car was no longer in plain sight of the road.
From the mountains, Botfield looks rather like a great blot upon the fair landscape, with its blackened engine-house and banks of coal-dust, its long range of limekilns, sultry and quivering in the summer sunshine, and its heavy, groaning water-wheel, which pumps up the water from the pits below.
Stone mills and limekilns sat huge and squat, the fess and the rekin almost insignificant, huddled among sprawling heaps of spoil.