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churn

8 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) churn (noun)
  2. 2) churn (verb)
  3. churn barrel (adjective)
  4. churn-butted (adjective)
  5. churn drill (noun)
  6. churn out (verb)
  7. churn supper (noun)
  8. churn up (verb)

1churn

noun \ˈchərn\

Definition of CHURN

: a vessel for making butter in which milk or cream is agitated in order to separate the oily globules from the watery medium
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Origin of CHURN

Middle English chyrne, from Old English cyrin; akin to Old Norse kjarni churn
First Known Use: before 12th century

Other Household Terms

cruet, curiosity, duvet, fiasco, sham, taper, valance, whatnot

Rhymes with CHURN

Bern, burn, earn, erne, fern, kern, learn, pirn, quern, spurn, stern, tern, terne, turn, urn, yearn

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