lime-kiln
(ˈlaɪmkɪln)
Forms: see lime n.1 and kiln; also 6 lyme kylme, 7 limbekill.
A kiln in which lime is made by calcining limestone.
| 1296 Durham Halmote Rolls (Surtees) 6 Septem acras terræ apud limkilne. 1355–6 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 557 Et in 1 Lymkilne comburend. apud Pytingdon, 14s. 6d. 1509 Bury Wills (Camden) 112 Y⊇ hygheway from y⊇ lyme kylle. 1580 Frampton Dial. Yron & Steele in Joyful News (1596) 145 Put them into an Ouen, like to a lyme keele. 1598 Shakes. Merry W. iii. iii. 86 As hatefull to me, as the reeke of a Lime-kill. 1608 Bonham in Topsell Serpents 314 Wormes..which are wont to doe much hurt to Fornaces and Limbekills where they make Limbe. 1692 Lond. Gaz. No. 2828/2 They destroyed their famous Lime Kill. 1703 Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 83 Resembling those places in England where there have been anciently Lime-kilns. 1876 A. Cary Pict. Country Life i. 16 A pile of dry stones that had once been a lime-kiln. 1892 H. Nisbet Bushranger's Sweetheart xviii. 136 ‘That infernal {oqq}swanky{cqq} has left me as dry as a lime-kiln’, cried out my companion. |
| attrib. c 1547 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 726 A key of y⊇ lyme kylne doore. |
b. transf. and
fig.| 1606 Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. i. 25 (Qo. 1609) Now the rotten diseases of the south..Sciaticaes, limekills ith' palme,..take and take againe such preposterous discoueries! 1845 E. B. Barrett in Lett. R. Browning (1899) I. 289 The great Law lime-kiln dries human souls all to one colour. |