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CHURN
Open directlyHastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
CHURN . See Butter.
Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
CHURN . See Butter.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separete the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.
2. To shake or agitate with violence. Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose. Addison.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To perform the operation of churning.