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a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying, especially one for calcining lime or firing pottery
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The ceramics were fired in the kiln to harden and set the glaze.
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We're going to need to fire up the kiln before we can start making pottery.
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Let's crank up the kiln and get these clay pots cooking!
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Working in the kiln of competition, she emerged stronger and more resilient.