noun
- a furnace or oven used for burning limestone to produce lime
Examples
- The old limekiln stood abandoned near the quarry.
- Workers fed limestone into the limekiln throughout the day.
- The limekiln produced quicklime for construction projects.
- Smoke billowed from the limekiln as it heated the rocks.
- The historic limekiln is now a museum exhibit.
- They built the limekiln close to the limestone deposits.