: a kiln or furnace for reducing limestone or shells to lime by burning
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When a furnace or a limekiln or a boiler shut down for maintenance, his crew was there to chip out the old masonry and install the new.
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Murr Brewster, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2025
In 1975, Calera Wine Company was born, taking its name from the Spanish word for limekiln.
—New York Times, 15 June 2022
The 228-acre property straddles the river, with a manufacturing complex on the Maryland riverbank and a limekiln and a million-gallon storage tank on the West Virginia side.
—Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
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Murr Brewster, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2025
In 1975, Calera Wine Company was born, taking its name from the Spanish word for limekiln.
—New York Times, 15 June 2022
The 228-acre property straddles the river, with a manufacturing complex on the Maryland riverbank and a limekiln and a million-gallon storage tank on the West Virginia side.
—Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
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“Limekiln.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/limekiln. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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