noun
- large vats or vessels used in textile manufacturing for boiling, dyeing, or bleaching cloth
Usage: industrial; textile manufacturing
Examples
- The textile factory installed new kiers for dyeing cotton fabrics.
- Workers loaded the raw cloth into the kiers for bleaching.
- The kiers were heated to the proper temperature for the dyeing process.
- Steam rose from the kiers as the fabric was being processed.
- The old kiers were replaced with more efficient modern equipment.