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CHURN (0. Eng. cyrin; found in variou...

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 350 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHURN (0. Eng. cyrin; found in various forms in most See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Dutch karn; according to the New See also:English See also:Dictionary not connected with " See also:quern," a See also:mill)  , a See also:vessel in which See also:butter is made, by shaking or beating the cream so as to See also:separate the fatty particles which See also:form the butter from the serous parts or buttermilk . See also:Early churns were upright, and in shape resembled the cans now used in the transport of See also:milk, to which the name " See also:churn " is also given . The upright churn was worked by See also:hand by a wooden " plunger "; later came a See also:box-shaped churn with a " splasher " revolving inside and turned by a handle . The See also:modern type of churn, in large dairies worked by See also:mechanical means, either revolves or swings itself, thus reverting to the most See also:primitive method of butter-making, the shaking or swinging of the cream ina skin-bag or a See also:gourd .

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