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A furnace used to produce lime (quicklime and slaked lime) from limestone.
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A burning sensation.
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Usage: figuratively, obsolete
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a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: kiln
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Asturian:
caleru
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Bulgarian:
варница
(varnica)
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Czech:
vápenka
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Dutch:
kalkoven
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Finnish:
kalkkiuuni
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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French:
chaufour
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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French:
four à chaux
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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German:
Kalkbrennofen
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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German:
Kalkofen
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Greek:
ασβεστοκάμινος
(asvestokáminos)
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Interlingua:
furno de calce
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Irish:
áith aoil
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Irish:
tiníl
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Italian:
calcara
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Italian:
forno da calce
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Japanese:
石灰窯
(ishibai-gama)
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Latin:
calcāria
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Macedonian:
варница
(varnica)
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Polish:
wapiennik
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Portuguese:
caieira
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Portuguese:
forno de cal
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Romanian:
cuptor de var
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Romanian:
varniță
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Spanish:
horno de cal
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Spanish:
calera
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Spanish:
calero
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Turkish:
kireç ocağı
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone
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Vietnamese:
lò vôi
— a furnace used to produce lime from limestone