Sc. Now rare or Obs. Also 7, 9 kiln-logie. [f. kill, KILN + LOGIE, sometimes used in the same sense as killogie.] The covered space in front of the fireplace of a kiln, serving to give draught to the fire and to shelter the person attending to it; formerly often used as a place for sheltering or hiding in.
15[?]. King Berdok (Bann. MS.), 31. Berdok fled in till a killogy.
1563. Edin. Town Council Rec., 18 June. Ihonne Knox was apprehendit and tane forth of ane killogye.
a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1829), 27. This night he was laid in the kiln-logie.
1815. Scott, Guy M., vi. The muckle chumlay in the Auld Place reeked like a killogie in his time.
1881. W. Gregor, Folk-Lore, 84 (E.D.D.). This clue was cast into the kiln-logie.
