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churner

churner

1 3.9
A person or machine that stirs milk to make butter
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃɜrnər/
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  • The farmer used the churner to make fresh butter from cream every morning.
  • butter churner

Examples

  • Frequent churner.

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  • You told me how to perfect the butter churner.

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  • The old 'Turner Churner' is straight ahead.

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  • For months now, the reports have been increasingly grim, but today's post, "The War Against Syria's Civilians," is an unmitigated stomach-churner.

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  • To create homemade butter, you need a reliable churner that can efficiently agitate the cream.

  • In the past, families would gather around the churner to take turns making butter during the summer months.

Synonyms

mixer
vschurner
37 1.5

A kitchen machine that combines and beats ingredients for cooking or baking

is narrower, focusing on stirring or agitating often to make butter
stirrer
vschurner
5 2.1

A small tool used to mix drinks or liquids

is broader, referring to people or machines, especially for making butter
buttermaker
vschurner
5.5

A machine that churns cream or milk into butter

is broader, covering both people and machines that stir or agitate

Surface Forms

churner singular
churners plural

Morphology

churner = churn (transparent) = churn + er

Agent noun formed by adding the productive suffix '-er' to the verb 'churn', yielding a person or machine that churns, which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Churner comes from the simple verb churn, which means 'to shake or stir', plus the ending -er, which means 'one who does'. So a churner is simply 'one who churns', a person or machine that stirs milk until it becomes butter.