Limekiln

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime wordnet
  3. 3
    A burning sensation. figuratively, obsolete

    "Now, the rotten diseases of the south, the guts-griping, ruptures, catarrhs, loads o’ gravel i’ the back, lethargies, cold palsies, raw eyes, dirt-rotten livers, wheezing lungs, bladders full of imposthume, sciaticas, limekilns i’ the palm, incurable bone-ache, and the rivelled fee-simple of the tetter, take and take again such preposterous discoveries!"

Etymology

From lime + kiln.

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