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limekiln

/lahym-kil, -kiln/US // ˈlaɪmˌkɪl, -ˌkɪln //UK // (ˈlaɪmˌkɪln) //

柠檬园,柠檬汁,柠檬汁的作用

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a kiln or furnace for making lime by calcining limestone or shells.

Examples

  • I knew very well, however, that the appointed place was the little sluice-house by the limekiln on the marshes, and the hour nine.

  • I left her for dead, and if there had been a limekiln as nigh her as there is now nigh you, she shouldn't have come to life again.

  • The gases from a large limekiln supply the dilute carbonic acid gas, which contains 25 per cent.

  • Limekiln-lane, now Lime-street, was so called from the limekiln that stood on the site of the present Skelhorn-street.

  • Master Whibble tells a tortuous story of finding it done up in a packet in a disused limekiln near the Downs.