κάμινος

A. oven, furnace, or kiln, for smelting, baking, burning earthenware and bricks, Hom. Epigr. 14, Hdt. 1.179, 4.164, A. Fr. 281, Critias 2.13 D. PPetr. 3p.141 (iii B.C.), etc.: pl., of Hephaestus' forge, Anacreont. 27A2; flue for warming a room, Gal. 6.332, cf. 10.843; alcove, LXX Nu. 25.8: prov. of one who ate hot dishes, κάμινος οὐκ ἄνθρωπος Crobyl. 8; κάμινον ἔχων ἐν τῷ πνεύμονι, of a drunkard, Com.Adesp. 633. (Perh. cogn. with καμάρα, q.v.)