Churn

churn, n. a machine used for the production of butter from cream or from whole milk.— v.t. to agitate cream so as to obtain butter.— v.i. to perform the act of churning.— ns. Churn′-drill , a drill worked by hand, not struck with the hammer, a jumper; Churn′ing , the act of making butter: the quantity of butter made at once; Churn′-staff , the plunger used in an upright churn: the sun-spurge. [A.S. cyrin ; Ice. kirn a , a churn; Dut. and Ger. kernen , to churn.]