1. One who calcines.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. xxix. A Calciner of Ashes.
2. An apparatus for calcining; spec. a kiln or furnace for roasting ore.
1837. Penny Cycl., VII. 502/1. The charge of ore usually put into the calciner weighs about three … tons.
1870. Eng. Mech., 21 Jan., 447/3. There are two calciners in use [in roasting copper ore], one of them known as an ‘open,’ and the other as a ‘blind’ calciner.
1879. Encycl. Brit., IX. 842.
