A Scottish word for the open space in front of a kiln's firebox — the area where workers tended the fire and where warmth gathered. In Robert Burns's poem 'Halloween', the killogie is used as a place of meeting and mischief, embedding it in Scottish folk culture beyond its purely functional meaning.
The farm labourers gathered in the killogie to warm themselves between loads of grain during the autumn drying.
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(Scotland, obsolete) The fireplace of a kiln.
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