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.
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Limekiln
Synonyms for "limekiln" (4 found)
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Translations
24 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- варница noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Czech
1 entries- vápenka noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Finnish
1 entries- kalkkiuuni noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
French
2 entries- chaufour noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
- four à chaux noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Greek
1 entries- ασβεστοκάμινος noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Interlingua
1 entries- furno de calce noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Irish
2 entries- tiníl noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
- áith aoil noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Italian
2 entries- calcara noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
- forno da calce noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Japanese
1 entries- 石灰窯 noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Latin
1 entries- calcāria noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Macedonian
1 entries- варница noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Polish
1 entries- wapiennik noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Portuguese
2 entries- caieira noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
- forno de cal noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Romanian
2 entries- cuptor de var noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
- varniță noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Spanish
3 entries- calera noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
- calero noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
- horno de cal noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Turkish
1 entries- kireç ocağı noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Vietnamese
1 entries- lò vôi noun (a furnace used to produce lime from limestone)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
From head to foot I was powdered almost as white with chalk and dust, as if I had come out of a lime-kiln.
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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.
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“I can’t be dead,” he reflected. “I have a villainous headache, and my mouth is like a lime-kiln […]”
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