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Churning   /tʃˈərnɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Churning  n.  
1.
The act of one who churns.
2.
The quantity of butter made at one operation.


verb
Churn  v. t.  (past & past part. churned; pres. part. churning)  
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."


Churn  v. i.  To perform the operation of churning.





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"Churning" Quotes from Famous Books



... hear the sentinel ramming down another cartridge, hear him "return rammer," and cock his rifle. Again the gun cracked, and again there was no sound of anybody being hit. Again we could hear the sentry churning down another cartridge. The drums began beating the long roll in the camps, and officers could be heard turning the men out. The thing was becoming exciting, and one of us ...
— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy
... with a foreboding of impending evil. She watched Lew in the garden; she got her aunt to let her help with the churning—drive the dasher monotonously up and down until the butter came; then she helped work the butter, helped gather the vegetables for dinner, did everything and anything to keep herself from thinking. ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... edge of the cream she liked to see it wrinkle up in thick yellow leathery folds, showing how deep and rich it was; it looked half butter already. She knew how to take it off now very nicely. The cream was set by in a vessel for future churning, and the milk, as each pan was skimmed, was poured down the wooden trough at the left of the window through which it went into a great hogshead at the lower ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner
... yells suddenly ceased and the gunners changed their aim. A small thing had left the nearly submerged tube in the cruiser's stem, and the gunners were now firing at a darting line of bubbles, obliterating the target for a moment with the churning of the water, only to see the frothy streak within their range, coming on at locomotive speed. They aimed ahead; two five-inch guns added their clamor, and even a Hontoria turret-gun voiced its roar and sent its messenger. But the bubbles would ...
— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson
... impossible. He scraped furiously over a rock, bruised across a second, and struck a third with crushing force. He clutched its slippery top with both hands, releasing Buck, and above the roar of the churning water ...
— The Call of the Wild • Jack London


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