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Limekiln
noun
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Noun
- 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 a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime wordnet
- 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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