[f. prec.] trans. To burn, bake or dry in a kiln; to kiln-dry.
1715. Leoni, Palladio’s Archit. (1742), I. 4. It must be employ’d as soon as kiln’d, otherwise it wastes … away. Ibid., II. 54. Lime, the manner of killing it.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Malt, There is also another Error in drying and kilning of Malt.
1881. Blackmore, Christowell, xxv. The clay was so inferior, and they were kilned in such a doltish manner.
