noun
- a large vat or tank used in textile manufacturing for boiling, dyeing, or bleaching cloth
Usage: technical; textile industry
Examples
- The cotton fabric was placed in the kier for bleaching.
- Workers monitored the temperature in the dyeing kier.
- The textile mill installed new kiers to increase production capacity.
- Steam rose from the boiling kier as the cloth was processed.
- The kier held hundreds of yards of fabric during the dyeing process.