Crossword clues for churn
churn
- Make butter
- Butter-making device
- Butter vat
- Violently shake
- Trade for the purpose of generating commissions, in broker lingo
- Produce in volume, with "out"
- Old-fashioned device for making butter
- Old device for making butter
- Mass-produce, with "out"
- Make, as butter
- Large metal milk container
- Farm machine
- Device at a dairy
- Container for milk
- Colonial butter maker
- Butter maker's device
- Butter ___ (old-fashioned kitchen device)
- Agitate, as cream
- Old-fashioned farm apparatus
- Butter maker's need
- Produce hurriedly, with "out"
- Antique farm device
- Make butter the old-fashioned way
- Milk shaker?
- A vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
- Vessel for making butter
- Dairymaid's device
- Milk container
- Large milk can
- Large milk container
- Large metal milk can
- Half of church service makes you heave
- Dairy can compete henceforth, utilising recent negotiations initially
- Dairy product
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Churn \Churn\ (ch[^u]rn), n. [OE. chirne, cherne, AS. ceren, cyrin; akin to D. karn, Dan. kierne. See Churn, v. t.] A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
Churn \Churn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Churned (ch[^u]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Churning.] [OE. chernen, AS. cernan; akin to LG. karnen, G. kernen, D. karnen, Dan. kierne, Sw. k["a]rna, and also to E. corn, kernel, the meaning coming from the idea of extracting the kernel or marrow. See Kernel.]
To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.
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To shake or agitate with violence.
Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.
--Addison.
Churn \Churn\, v. i. To perform the operation of churning.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cyrin, from Proto-Germanic *kernjon (cognates: Old Norse kirna, Swedish kärna, Danish kjerne, Dutch karn, Middle High German kern); probably akin to cyrnel "kernel" (see kernel) and describing the "grainy" appearance of churned cream.
mid-15c., chyrnen, from churn (n.). Extended senses are from late 17c. Intransitive sense is from 1735. Related: Churned; churning. To churn out, of writing, is from 1902.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A vessel used for churning. 2 (context telecommunications English) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider. 3 (context telecommunications English) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers, expressed by the formula ''Customer Quits/Customer base''. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream. 2 (context transitive figuratively English) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion. 3 (context intransitive English) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
WordNet
n. a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk [syn: butter churn]
Wikipedia
Churn may refer to:
- Butter churn, a device used for churning butter
- Churning (butter), the process of creating butter out of milk or cream
- Milk churn, container for milk transportation
- Churn drill, a large, older drilling machine that bores large diameter holes in the ground
Churn is the debut album by Shihad, released in New Zealand by Wildside Records on 12 July 1993 and in Europe on 25 June 1994 on Modern Music.
Churn is the debut studio album by American post-grunge band Seven Mary Three. It was independently released and preceded the band's mainstream breakthrough, American Standard. Churn also included two songs that would go on to be among Seven Mary Three's biggest singles. The album was re-released several years later with different album artwork. It was again re-released on December 9, 2008 via digital music sellers and the band's website.
Usage examples of "churn".
Serrimissani scuttled down it and Ade stepped forward, rifle shouldered, stomach churning, wanting it all to be over and hating himself for his haste.
Dozens of LVTP-7 amtracks, each carrying twenty men, churned through light surf at nine knots toward the beach.
And through the clouds of dust churning over the battleground, Dain had come riding into view.
After hearing this news, Simon Bentwood looked for his wife and found her in the dairy, her arms turning the wheel of the churn.
He lingered a moment, wondering what it might be like to live on a site like this, to wake up every morning to views of Southsea se afront across the churning tide, then he let the binos drift down again until he was following a line of open gun ports.
Jamie pursed his lips, his gaze traveling slowly over the earth of the yardbut the ground was churned with footsteps, clumps of grass uprooted and the whole of the yard dusted with ash and bits of charred wood.
The water churning red with tiny crustaceans, the spouts of the humpbacks and the sei and bluefins, the tang of sea-salt and foam - I remembered the sea as if I had lived in the water for a million years.
The water churning red with tiny crustaceans, the spouts of the humpbacks and the sei and bluefins, the tang of sea-salt and foam-I remembered the sea as if I had lived in the water for a million years.
He knocked Boran off his feet and they were rolling, locked together, on ground churned by boots and flecked with blood.
He swam with a powerful crawl stroke and churning feet, keeping his head low in the water and breathing only under his left arm on every fourth stroke, and soon he was even passing the bullboats that were being drawn upstream by strong paddlers.
He escorted Cagliari and the two officers into the Oval Office and found a chair in the corner, his stomach churning in frustration.
The ground was carpeted with wet redwood needles on which the tires spun before gripping, but not enough rain had fallen to churn the earth into mud.
I went to greet the men who accompanied Cavan and found them camped beside the River Churn that flowed to the east of Corinium.
He had only to nibble a corner of Chevrotin, sometimes only inhale the pungency of Brie, when his bowels would churn and boil and begin venting.
The shiny metal clamps made her stomach churn and through the gag she whimpered nervously, shaking her head and imploring them with her eyes not to go ahead with what they were about to do to her.