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n. - An oven used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to another mineral.

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Usage examples (36)
  • "That would be a limekiln," provided Antryg thoughtfully.
  • I'd probably send out some kind of an illusion of its smell to draw them to the limekiln.
  • Lime-street, was so called from the limekiln that stood on the site of the present Skelhorn-street.
  • British party was near enough to see the struggle at the limekiln, and came on rapidly in pursuit of our men.
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