butter churn

1. 1.

   a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk

   Synonymschurn

   Broadervessel

Questions about butter churn

What does butter churn mean?

butter churn means "a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk".

What is another word for butter churn?

Close synonyms include churn. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is butter churn a common word?

butter churn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.