noun
- A churn for making butter.
- A harvest festival or celebration, especially in Scotland.
Usage: chiefly Scottish or dialectal
Usage: chiefly Scottish or archaic
verb
- To churn (milk or cream) into butter.
Usage: chiefly Scottish or dialectal
Examples
- She used the old kirn to make fresh butter every week.
- The village held a kirn celebration after the harvest was complete.
- They would kirn the cream each morning to produce butter for the market.
- The kirn was a wooden vessel passed down through generations.
- At the kirn festival, the community gathered to give thanks for the crops.