The kilns are supposed to be of the third century of our era, and the ware was in local use, for some of it was found at Bittern.
A variety of this ware has been lately found at a spot called Crockhill, in the New Forest, together with the kilns in which it was made, and a heap of potter's sherds, or pieces spoilt in the baking.
In the old kilns you take the fire away from the glass, and leave the glass to cool all night or so; in the new, you remove it and leave it in moderate heat at the side of the kiln till it is cool enough to handle, or nearly cold.
But in kilns that are constructed with a peephole, you can also tell by putting in a bright iron rod or other shining object and holding it over the glass so as to see if the glass reflects it.
Nottingham enjoyed possibly the largest brewing and malting business in the country, and those trades were nearly wholly carried on in chambers and cellars and kilns cut out of the living rock.
The existence of old lime-kilns near the Chislehurst caves places their origin beyond a doubt.
As they marched past old coal pits where charcoal kilns were fired every autumn, the cross-beaks twisted their hooked bills, and asked one another what kind of coalers these might be who were now thronging the forest.
It could not come from a ranch, but perhaps there were charcoal kilns in the forest.
Some is burned in kilns of cheap construction, but a traveler through a limestone country finds few such kilns now in use.
If the unburned cores of kilns are ground up, the material simply retains the value of unburned stone.
The use of loblolly pine lumber was greatly stimulated when the custom of drying it in kilns became general.
Numerous Anglo-Roman kilns have been discovered, some of them even with the half-formed and partially baked vessels still standing on the form or disposed in the kiln, as they had been abandoned some fifteen or sixteen centuries ago.
Similar pits scattered over the northern moors are described as the kilns in which peats were charred for smelting.
Roman tiles found on the site of modern London,[407] indicate some of the products of the kilns by which the inexhaustible bed of London clay was first converted to economical uses.
Rural kilns with long traditions of stoneware water vessels converted to the production of tea-ceremony wares, and throughout the land the search was on for colored glazes.
Japanese potters cherished their regional individuality, and they continued to express their personal sensibilities in their work, so there were a multiplicity of rural kilns and a wide variety of styles.
However, technical advances in the high-firing kilns brought about subtle changes in the mock-glazes of the aristocratic wares.
The kilns were bottle-shaped and, according to tradition, originally were open at the top, like lime kilns; the contents were roofed over with old crocks.
Surely, had He hated them, nothing was easier than to leave them to die amid the brick-kilns of Egypt, beneath the cruel lash of Pharaoh's taskmasters.
These kilns were known as Swift McNeil's, and people came great distances to purchase lime for agricultural and building purposes.
After a couple of hours of wandering by the shore, he turned inland, and came upon lime-kilns at a place called Mount Pleasant, or Faquahart.
These connecting kilns have the merit of being heat saving, but they are usually small and badly constructed, and the heat in none of them is uniform.
A brick-kiln is built entirely, or almost so, of the brick that are to be burned, and the kilns are torn down and carted away as the brick are sold.
The over-structure of the kilns was a mere roof of half-inch planks laid on timbers that were upheld by poles.
These kilns are made of brick, one course being sufficient, bands of iron or timber framework being added to strengthen the brickwork with greater economy.
This regenerative heating is similar in principle and effect to that obtained by means of the shaft and ring kilns described above.
Gas-fired kilns and ovens are now being used or experimented with in every country, and their perfection, which cannot be far distant, will improve the most vital of the potter's processes both in certainty and economy.
It is, however, necessary that we should briefly describe the earlier forms of potters' kilns used by the nations whose pottery counts among the treasures of the collector and the antiquary.
Keene's cement and its congeners are made in fixedkilns so constructed that only the gaseous products of combustion come into contact with the gypsum to be burnt, in order to avoid contamination with the ash of the fuel.
The farther ends of the flues of several such kilns are connected with a chimney shaft.
In the early days of rotatory kilns producer gas was used as a fuel, but with little success; about 1895 petroleum was used in the United States with complete success, but at a relatively heavy cost.
Others have more complete presentations of potteries, with men engaged in the different processes of vase manufacture, modelling, painting or supplying the kilns with newly-made wares.
In short, the artistic output of Chinese kilns in their palmiest days was, not faience or pottery, but porcelain, whether of soft or hard paste.
Pottery was certainly manufactured from an early date, and there is evidence that kilns existed in some fifteen provinces in the 10th century.
While the main party of us got to work in the trench, a few made after the men who had run into the brick-fields, and it was a case of hide and seek, round and round and in and out of the kilns and brick-stacks.
Moreover, had the sculptor wished to represent the kilns in which the bricks for the palace were burnt, he would have shown the flames coming out at the top.
This latter precaution did not require any very lengthy journey; brick kilns must have blazed day and night from one end of Chaldæa to another.
It has been guessed that this bas-relief, which is unique in its way, merely represents the brick-kilns used in the construction of the palace of Sennacherib.
In 1680 the famous kilnsin the province of Kiangsi were reopened, and porcelain that is among the most artistically perfect in the world was fired in them.
He fired three bottle-nosed kilnswith willow charcoal from the wood lot.
Farmers' sons and servants started generally from County Down about midnight, and after traveling all night arrived at the kilns for their loads about dawn.
At the kilns his manner had changed, and he had become moody and morose.
He was constantly leaving the kilns in the care of a companion on Saturday evenings and making long journeys to see Alice, returning on Monday morning, after a fatiguing night's journey.
We know well how Joseph's words were vindicated, and how very unlooked for brick-kilns defiled the goodly lands of Goshen, and task-masters drove Israel to their work.
From four to five hours the kilns would be kept burning, and the critical moment came when the mass of kelp began to liquefy, and the word was given to 'strike.
We had to develop new sources of supply of oak and hickory and to erect dry kilns especially for the wheel project.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kilns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
