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churn

3 5.3

A container used to shake cream to make butter

noun
/tʃɜrn/

: recipiente para hacer mantequilla

The old-fashioned churn sat on the counter, ready for the next batch of butter to be made.
butter churn

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Examples

After shaking the churn for several minutes, we finally saw the butter separate from the buttermilk.
I examined ducks, wreaths elaborately carved and gilded, picture frames of burnished cherry wood, and finally spotted a butter churn.

Fiction book (1993)
Do you know where the Butter Churn is?

Drive-Away Dolls (2024)
What do they call it around here, a butter churn?

Isn't She Great (2000)
We put the print in a tin milk churn.

Fiction book (1996)
Just a plain old churn standing there in the corner of my bedroom to remind me of Taconic Hills.

Fiction book (1993)
Across the yard, Ned and Jack chatted as they unloaded the churn out of the creamery cart.

Fiction book (1997)
The Lhasa also offered sweet or salty Tibetan tea, served at your table from a wooden butter churn and poured into a silver-rimmed wooden bowl.

Academic text (2008)
She used a traditional churn to make homemade butter from fresh cream.

Synonyms

butter churn

vschurn

2 7.4

A container for making butter by stirring cream until butter forms

is the same object but is the shorter single word name

buttermaker

vschurn

5.5

A machine that churns cream or milk into butter

is the container form rather than a machine or device

Compounds

butter churn

2 7.4

A container for making butter by stirring cream until butter forms

Surface Forms

churn singular

churns plural

Etymology

Churn comes from an old word for the wooden container used to make butter. People would 'shake' or 'stir' cream in that tub until butter formed, so a churn is still the name of that butter-making tool.