单词 | butter churn |
释义 | butter churnn. A device used to agitate cream in order to produce butter, typically consisting of a wooden cylindrical container in which a paddle is rotated by means of a handle, or into which a pole is repeatedly thrust. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > churning butter > churn churnc1000 kirn1338 butter churn1577 churning-tub1580 barrel-churn1741 plunge churn1793 box churn1810 table churn1828 dash-churn1865 churner1888 1577 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 76 A butter charme. 1589 in H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age (1886) 201 A butter-churn, 3s. a1652 R. Brome Queenes Exchange (1657) ii. ii. sig. C2v/2 Their Buckets shall they bring, Washbowls and Butter-churns. 1736 H. Fielding Tumble-down Dick 8 To shew your Wit, transform Your Mistress to a Butter-Churn. 1780 Catal. Househ. Furnit. G. B. Tyndale (John Plura) 7 Nine cheese vats, a pair of scales, 3 brass weights, and a butter churn. 1831 J. G. Powell Narr. Voy. Swann River iii. 58 Fail not to purchase..a small butter-churn, pails, barrels, and kegs. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind ix. 240 In modern India, butter churns are worked with a cord. 1919 Commerc. Amer. June 53/1 Not the least interesting departure is the using of steel instead of wood in the making of butter churns. 1957 D. Magnin tr. R. Dumont Types Rural Econ. viii. 284 A waterfall some distance away is harnessed to drive the butter churn. 2005 J. Banville Sea 53 There was a hand-cranked wooden butter churn that I always wanted to see being operated but never did. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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