limekiln

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English lime English kiln English limekiln From lime + kiln.

1. A furnace used to produce lime (quicklime and slaked lime) from limestone.

   “Thou mightst as well say I love to walk by the Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek of a lime-kiln.”

   “From head to foot I was powdered almost as white with chalk and dust, as if I had come out of a lime-kiln.”

2. A burning sensation.

   “Now, the rotten diseases of the south, the guts-griping, ruptures, catarrhs, loads o’ gravel i’ the back, lethargies, cold palsies, raw eyes, dirt-rotten livers, wheezing lungs, bladders full of imposthume, sciaticas, limekilns i’ the palm, incurable bone-ache, and the rivelled fee-simple of the tetter, take and take again such preposterous discoveries!”