🧈 A butter maker 🧈 A butter machine

buttermaker

5.5

A machine that churns cream or milk into butter

noun
/ˈbʌtərˌmeɪkər/

: mantequera

The old dairy still uses a traditional buttermaker to produce fresh butter every morning.

Examples

Modern farms often rely on an electric buttermaker to speed up the butter-making process.
After cleaning the buttermaker, the workers prepared it for the next batch of cream.
The buttermaker churned the cream for hours.
Did you see the new buttermaker at the farm?
The old dairy still uses a traditional buttermaker to produce fresh butter every morning.
After cleaning the buttermaker, the workers prepared it for the next batch of cream.
Modern farms often rely on an electric buttermaker to speed up the butter-making process.

Synonyms

churn

vsbuttermaker

3 5.3

A container used to shake cream to make butter

is a device that actively makes butter not merely a vessel

butter churn

vsbuttermaker

2 7.4

A container for making butter by stirring cream until butter forms

is a machine for making butter rather than just a container

churner

vsbuttermaker

1 3.9

A person or machine that stirs milk to make butter

is only a machine made to produce butter not a person

Surface Forms

buttermaker singular

buttermakers plural

Morphology

buttermaker = butter + maker (transparent) = butter + maker

Clear compound of 'butter' + 'maker' with an obvious meaning: a device used to make butter.

Etymology

Buttermaker is simply butter + maker. Butter is 'the fat from milk made by churning cream' and maker is 'a thing that makes', so a buttermaker is a machine that 'makes' butter by churning cream.