CHURN (0. Eng. cyrin; found in various forms in most

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languages, cf. Dutch karn; according to the New

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quern," a

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• MILL
• MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
• MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
• MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
• MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)

mill)  , a vessel in which butter is made, by shaking or beating the cream so as to separate the fatty particles which form the butter from the serous parts or buttermilk . Early churns were upright, and in shape resembled the cans now used in the transport of milk, to which the name " churn " is also given . The upright churn was worked by hand by a wooden " plunger "; later came a box-shaped churn with a " splasher " revolving inside and turned by a handle . The modern type of churn, in large dairies worked by mechanical means, either revolves or swings itself, thus reverting to the most primitive method of butter-making, the shaking or swinging of the cream ina skin-bag or a gourd .