CHURN

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separete the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.

2.
v.

To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.

3.
v.

To shake or agitate with violence. Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose. Addison.

4.
v.

To perform the operation of churning.