An oven or furnace used for baking or drying ceramics, bricks, pottery, or other materials at very high temperatures.
From Latin 'culina' (kitchen or cooking place). The word traveled through Old French and Old English, keeping essentially the same meaning throughout.
Kilns are one of humanity's greatest inventions—without them, we couldn't have pottery, bricks, or tiles, and entire civilizations were built on mastering kiln technology!
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