The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. Any of various ovens for hardening, burning, or drying substances such as grain, meal, or clay, especially a brick-lined oven used to bake or fire ceramics.
n. An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or smelting ores.
v. To bake in a kiln.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything
n. A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A furnace or oven for drying, baking, or burning.
To dry or burn in a kiln.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
Word Usage
"A further development of traditional smoking techniques is the adoption of the West African banda kiln known as the Ivory Coast kiln."