A vessel or device in which cream or milk is agitated to separate the oily globules from the caseous and serous parts, used to make butter.
VERB:
Inflected forms: churned, churn·ing, churns
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1a. To agitate or stir (milk or cream) in order to make butter. b. To make by the agitation of milk or cream: churn butter.2. To shake or agitate vigorously: wind churning up the piles of leaves. See synonyms at agitate. 3. To buy and sell (a client's securities) frequently, especially in order to generate commissions.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To make butter by operating a device that agitates cream or milk. 2. To move with or produce great agitation: waves churning in the storm; so angry it made my stomach churn.
PHRASAL VERB:
churn out To produce in an abundant and automatic manner: churns out four novels a year.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English chirne, from Old English cyrn, cyrin.
chûrn
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