- (v.t.) To shake or agitate with violence.
- (v.i.) To perform the operation of churning.
- (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.
- (v.t.) To stir, beat or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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