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Churning   /tʃˈərnɪŋ/   Listen
Churning

adjective
1.
Moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation.  Synonym: churned-up.  "A car stuck in the churned-up mud"
2.
(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)
1.
Stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter.
2.
Be agitated.  Synonyms: boil, moil, roil.



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"Churning" Quotes from Famous Books



... Only you can't wait and work until the wash-up in the spring. Then we shall all be rich, rich as kings, only you cannot wait. You want to go back to the States. So do I, and I was born there, but I can wait, when each day the gold in the pan shows up yellow as butter in the churning. But you want your good time, and, like a child, you cry for it now. Bah! Why ...
— The God of His Fathers • Jack London

... wrinkle up in thick, yellow, leathery folds, showing how deep and rich it was it looked half butter already. She knew how to take it off now, very nicely. The cream was set by in a vessel for future churning, and the milk, as each pan was skimmed, was poured down the wooden trough, at the left of the window, through which it went into a great hogshead at the lower ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Elizabeth Wetherell

... wagon, or his good wife a pot or a kettle; they were to go, not to the armourer, and the draper, and the tailor, and the weaver, and the wheelwright, and the blacksmith,—but, hey presto! Master Warner set his imps a-churning, and turned ye out mail and tunic, worsted and wagon, kettle and pot, spick and span new, from his brewage of vapour and sea-coal. Oh, have I not heard enough of the sorcerer from my brother, who works in the Chepe ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... only an instant to realize that he was staring into the face of an astonished stranger. His hand flashed up in an edgewise blow which caught the other on the side of the throat, and then the world came apart about them. There was a churning, whirling sickness which griped and bent Ross almost double across the crumpled body of his victim. He held his head lest it be torn from his shoulders by the spinning thing which ...
— The Time Traders • Andre Norton

... have talked with Juanita. It is you she loves. Go to her and be good to her. She is back there in the milkhouse churning. But remember she is only a girl—so young, and motherless, too. It is the part of a man to be kind and generous and forbearing to a woman. He must be gentle—always gentle, if he would hold her love. ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine


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