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.

To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.

To shake or agitate with violence.

a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk

stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter

be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm"

The process of agitating cream until it separates into solids and liquids. The solid fat result is butter.