What is "kiln"

Usage examples of "kiln".

The backyard fared little better, home to a kiln, a crucible furnace, an annealing oven, and three or four incomplete sets of bocce balls that made interesting dents in the garden of weeds.

In the company of Breslaw and Railly and several of the ceramicists, he was standing at a distance from her on the apron of the kiln building.

He could smell the woodsmoke from the Alengwyneh towns, and other familiar and disgusting odors: the body wastes, the sour, pulpy smell of garbage rotting outside their villages, the tangy stink of their tanneries, the rankling smell of their lime kilns and charcoal pits and the retting vats where they soaked flax and dogbane and heart-tree bark to make cloth fiber.

After passing an afternoon with the drier in the kiln, seated close to a great heap of hops and inhaling the odour, I was in a condition of agreeable excitement all the evening.

Five days after, the kiln was supplied with coal, which the engineer had discovered lying open to the sky towards the mouth of the Red Creek, and the first smoke escaped from a chimney twenty feet high.

They saw in passing that the pottery kiln had been severely damaged by the wind, at least six feet of it having been blown off.

She recalled the people she had met at Sardili Shores, the brick makers and kiln firers who had come to see the unusual spectacle of a visiting Truthsayer.

This flue conducts the gases of the kilns to the stack, which is symmetrically located with reference to the kiln house.

In fact, the Catalan method, properly so called, requires the construction of kilns and crucibles, in which the ore and the coal, placed in alternate layers, are transformed and reduced, But Cyrus Harding intended to economize these constructions, and wished simply to form, with the ore and the coal, a cubic mass, to the center of which he would direct the wind from his bellows.

At another angle, powerful dredges were working overtime to supply the lime kiln and the slaker with their quota of crushed oyster shells.

I went to work with a gang of kiln men to the tileries which were situated two versts from prison.

The room was appointed with my few simple requirements: just a big bathroom, a comfy couch, and a kiln, in case I want to calm my preshow jitters by fashioning an urn.

The kiln had already been exorcised and consecrated to Sartor and to the nameless Earth Mother.

Our typical down-time brickmaker will probably only have experience with clamps, scoves, Scotch kilns, and Dutch kilns.

Shuttles can not be used in clamps, scoves, Scotch kilns or most up-draft kilns.