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Churning

adjective

Moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation. Synonym: churned-up. "A car stuck in the churned-up mud"

(of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence. Synonyms: roiled, roiling, roily, turbulent. "Turbulent rapids"

Churn

verb

(past & past part. churned; pres. part. churning)

Stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter.

Be agitated. Synonyms: boil, moil, roil.

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"Churning" Quotes from Famous Books

... Nabby is churning, The grindstone's turning, John is sawing, Charles hurrahing, Old Dobson's preaching, The peacock's screeching; Who can live in such ...

— Little Songs • Eliza Lee Follen

... women, and children were assembled. School was over at eleven, when the husband set about his work as gardener, smith, or carpenter, while his wife busied herself with domestic matters—baking bread, a hollow in a deserted ant-hill serving for an oven; churning butter in an earthen jar; running candles; making soap from ashes containing so little alkaline matter that the ley had to be kept boiling for a month or six weeks before it was strong enough for use. The wife was maid-of-all-work ...

— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone

... Or let's spread up our beds with the head at the foot and put the chest of drawers on the other side of the room, or let's make candy! Do you think father would miss the molasses if we only use a cupful? Couldn't we strain the milk, but leave the churning and the dishes for an hour or two, just once? If you say 'yes' I can think ...

— The Story Of Waitstill Baxter • By Kate Douglas Wiggin

... Even now it is said that in remote parts of England the dairymaid flies to it as a resource on the days when she churns her butter. She gathers a twig from the tree and puts it into a little hole in the churn. If this practice were neglected, she confidently believes that she might go on churning all day without getting ...

— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church

... sisters are gone. I'll tell you what I have been thinking of, Pablo. We will make a large enclosed place, to coax the ponies into during the winter, pick out as many as we think are good, and sell them at Lymington. That will be better than churning butter." ...

— The Children of the New Forest • Captain Marryat

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