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butter churn

n. a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk [syn: churn]

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Butter churn

A butter churn is a device used to convert cream into butter. This is done through a mechanical process, frequently via a pole inserted through the lid of the churn, or via a crank used to turn a rotating device inside the churn.

Usage examples of "butter churn".

That was my bodice he was describing, my breasts, and my butter churn!

Now, hurry up, and let us get into the buttercup field, which is a whole lot nicer than the butter churn and--Oh!

Actually I stopped twice, first to pick up a four-quart butter churn the antique shop had been promising me for weeks and then for ground horsemeat.

Brigitte looked like she belonged in a Dutch farm-yard operating a butter churn.

It's feeling your own legs go stiff, and your fingers not able to tat or knit or even grip the butter churn.

Leander set the coffee mugs down on a butter churn, went to the front door, and pulled it open.

The mistress was kindness itself, but she would get that pinched look on her face if she heard her cook and her daughter discussing delicate matters over the butter churn.

Beside the flowering vines and the effigy of the Earth King at its front window sat a small butter churn.

Linnet stumbled into view, reeling as the lid to a butter churn smacked him upside the head.

He could build a catapult out of a butter churn that would knock down a castle wall or put an iron ball between your eyes at four hundred yards.

A creature holding a tube with a plunger like an elongated butter churn stepped into sight twenty feet from Garric.

Ada stood with her back to the door, her body moving in time to the song and the turning of the butter churn.

The steering wheel and gearshift lever were invented during an era when the most complicated technology in most homes was a butter churn.