What is "kilns"

Usage examples of "kilns".

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.

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.

Sandra Kay made them build new kilns to keep their cardinal ware separate from the tableware because of the fumes.

I ruled the two newer kilns and the turning wheels marital, but valued them at a somewhat lower figure than Mrs.

Two workshops were back there, about twenty yards from the rear door of the shop, and the new kilns were under tin-roofed shelters beyond, half-hidden by those flowering bushes.

Graveled driveways linked the houses and main buildings, and dirt lanes led off up the hill through oaks and pines, probably to the wood lots that supplied firewood for the old-time kilns or possibly even to clay beds on the downslope beyond the rise.

Nordan passed straight through and out a side door and there were the two newer kilns, each under its own tall tin-roofed shelter.

Davis wanted to stop the tape and run it again in slow motion, but it moved on inexorably to other kilns and other potters.

Every two or three years, James Lucas and Donny and Amos would fill up one of the groundhog kilns and burn enough to dole out piece by piece like it was the last of the old.

The captain of the guard hollered from his post by the kilns, and the ground trembled under metal-clad feet as soldiers gathered from all over the compound.

The brilliancy which issued from it escaped from its sides as from two kilns heated to a white heat.

Land, burning limestone to make quicklime in kilns at a new quarry beside the Beautiful River, were not aware that they were being watched from above by dark and angry eyes.

Unam People lay in a thicket on the brink of a crag a hundred feet above the kilns and watched their strange labors.

Heat made the air shimmer above the kilns, which to the Unam chieftain looked like little gray huts, and the quarry was dense with drifting woodsmoke.