Kiln Dried:
Wood that has dried by a means of controlled heat and humidity in kilns or ovens to specific ranges of moisture content.
Knee: ...
Kiln - Clamp, field, updraught, downdraught, flare
- a building which is in effect a large oven. Can be constructed for a variety of purposes from drying bricks to burning limestone.
Lumber - Kiln-Dried - Lumber dried by artificial heat to a moisture content which is less than can normally be obtained through the natural process commonly known as air seasoning.
BRICK A molded rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln until hard and used as a building and paving material. Most bricks used for buildings in Ashfield are of a warm, red colour.
The tiles were then fired in a kiln which made them hard and, most importantly, weatherproof. They also were fireproof, useful in case of Indian attack by fire-arrow, and since they were resistant to rotting, they have lasted for many decades.
Clinker bricks were the result of wet bricks being placed too close to the fire in the kiln, resulting in bricks that were darker-coloured and in either ‘melted’ or ‘exploded’ shapes.
A solid masonry unit of clay or shale, formed into a rectangular prism while plastic and burned or fired in a kiln.
solid brick, standard ~ (F la brique pleine calibree, R caramida plina)
brick wall (F le mur de briques, R zid de caramida) ...
Bricks Common building blocks made from clay burnt in a kiln.
Buttress A structure built against a wall to support or reinforce it.C
Capital The elaboration at the top of a column, pillar, pier or pilaster.
Bricks - One of the oldest building materials, brick is based on a mix of clay with silt and sand pressed in molds and then burned in a kiln, which gives the characteristic slightly glazed finish.
BRICK
A substance made from clay molded and fired in a kiln or baked in the sun, used in building, paving, etc.
BROWNSTONE
A reddish-brown sandstone, used for building.
to prepare (especially ceramics) by baking in a kiln or otherwise applying heat.
Fixing
the use of a chemical process to make an image (a photograph, for example) more permanent.
The uniformity in urban layouts, house typologies and sizes as well as construction methods of the standard kiln-fired bricks, is evidence of significant social and political co-ordination.
The pigment used by the glass painter was of course vitreous: it consisted of powdered glass and sundry metallic oxides (copper, iron, manganese, &c.), so that, when the pieces of painted glass were made red hot in the kiln, ...
Treatment against attack using preservatives usually does not penetrate deeply enough to reach all borers, but they are killed by high temperatures, as in kiln dried timbers ...
 See also: Brick, House, Architecture, Masonry, Frame
  
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