From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Churn \Churn\ (ch[^u]rn), noun [OE. chirne, cherne, AS. ceren, cyrin; akin to D. karn, Dan. kierne. See {Churn}, verb (used with an object)] A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Churn \Churn\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Churned} (ch[^u]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Churning}.] [OE. chernen, AS. cernan; akin to LG. karnen, G. kernen, D. karnen, Dan. kierne, Sw. k["a]rna, and also to E. corn, kernel, the meaning coming from the idea of extracting the kernel or marrow. See {Kernel}.]
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. --Addison.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Churn \Churn\, verb (used without an object) To perform the operation of churning.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk [syn: {butter churn}]
verb
1: stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
2: be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn: {boil}, {moil}, {roil}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "churn": agitate, agitation, agitator, beat, beat up, beater, blender, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bubble, bustle, cement mixer, churn up, clabber, clot, coagulate, colloid, colloidize, commotion, conturbation, convulse, cream, crucible, curdle, disarrange, discompose, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturb, disturbance, ebullition, eggbeater, embroilment, emulsifier, emulsify, emulsionize, excite, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foam, foment, fret, fume, fuss, hubbub, hurly-burly, incrassate, inquietude, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, jiggler, jitters, jumpiness, lopper, maelstrom, malaise, melting pot, mixer, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, paddle, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, restlessness, rile, ripple, roil, roughen, rout, row, ruffle, rumple, seethe, seething, shake, shake up, shaker, simmer, smolder, stew, stir, stir up, swirl, thicken, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, upset, vibrator, whip, whip up, whisk, work up
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