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limekiln

noun

Etymology

From lime + kiln.

  1. derived from culīna — “kitchen, kitchen stove”
  2. inherited from cyln
  3. inherited from kilne
  4. formed as limekiln — “lime + kiln”

Definitions

  1. A furnace used to produce lime from limestone.

    • Thou mightst as well say I love to walk by the Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek of a lime-kiln.
    • From head to foot I was powdered almost as white with chalk and dust, as if I had come out of a lime-kiln.
    • He wasn’t comfortable, he said. And he’d got a thirst like a lime kiln. And he’d noticed that there was no water-bottle in the room.

  2. A burning sensation.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA