kiln-dried

1. 1.

   dried in a kiln

   Similardry

Questions about kiln-dried

What does kiln-dried mean?

kiln-dried means "dried in a kiln".

How many syllables are in kiln-dried?

kiln-dried has 2 syllables: kiln--dried. The stress falls on "kiln-".

Is kiln-dried a common word?

kiln-dried is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.