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Churns

Scope note

Containers in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or agitated by a plunging or revolving dasher, or by shaking, in order to separate the oily globules from the liquid and thus obtain butter.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300043094

Equivalent Terms used

churn

Created

13yrs ago

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