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limekiln

NOUN
  1. a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime

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  • My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
  • However, a limekiln, built in the northern part of the atrium on top of earthquake material, attests human activity in the area of the urban mansion, also in the post-antique period. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 2
  • I knew very well, however, that the appointed place was the little sluice – house by the limekiln on the marshes, and the hour nine. Great Expectations
  • Another tale recalled an incident in 1197 when a limekiln was made at Malton Priory.
  • Several limekilns were in operation, and the developers envisioned a city that would dwarf Birmingham as the industrial center of Alabama.
  • Slowly but surely, progress was made and before winter vegetables had been planted, a bakehouse and boat completed and two limekilns built.
  • Station House, set in the hamlet of Hollybush Forfar House, home to a remarkable pair of limekilns Two homes act as a reminder to the glory days of our industrial past
  • The Trust also works to conserve historic features from limekilns to stone sheepwashes.
  • But the vapor of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapor at last that I saw two men looking at me. Great Expectations
  • Project manager Dave Askew said: ‘We are keen to get it right, as the limekilns are industrial, and not the type we usually associate with an area of outstanding natural beauty, as this area is.’
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