butter-worker

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noun A creamery apparatus for pressing the buttermilk out of freshly made butter, working in the salt, and bringing the butter to a condition for use or shipment to market. There are several types of such machines, all consisting essentially of one or more plain or fluted rolls that traverse with a rolling motion over or through the butter, which is spread out in a thin cake upon a tray. In small hand-machines the trays are stationary; in power-machines the trays revolve and carry the butter under rolls revolving in a fixed position. In one type of machine the butter is placed in a revolving drum. Butter-workers and churns are sometimes united in one machine. See churn.
noun An apparatus or tool for freeing butter from buttermilk.

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The larger room was of course the butter factory, and was equipped with up-to-date appliances, -- aërator, Pasteurizer, cooler, separator, Babcock tester, swing churn, butter-worker, and so on.

The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter
This combined churn and butter-worker completes the process of butter-making, and when the golden mass is taken out it is ready to be packed for the English market.

Denmark M. Pearson Thomson
Then Aunt Abigail let her run the curiously shaped wooden butter-worker back and forth over the butter, squeezing out the water, and then pile it up again with her wooden paddle into a mound of gold.

Understood Betsy 1917
Then Aunt Abigail let her run the curiously shaped wooden butter-worker back and forth over the butter, squeezing out the water, and then pile it up again with her wooden paddle into a mound of gold.

Understood Betsy Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
It was only after I'd turned the thing over in my mind, as I helped Struthers put together our new butter-worker, that I saw he really referred to Casa Grande.

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912
The salt can be added while the butter is still in the churn or after it is put upon the butter-worker.

Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902