For only the spring before poor worn-out Mrs. Martin had suddenly ceased her baking, churning, and hoeing, and had gone to her long rest in the Forest Glen churchyard, and already rumor said that Jake was on the lookout for another baker, churner, and hoer.
"'Lizbeth of the Dale"
Marian Keith
I s'pec' he 'd make a beautiful churner.
"Miss Minerva and William Green Hill"
Frances Boyd Calhoun
The churner would pull back, brace himself, choke, and stop the machine: one churner threw himself off and was choked to death before he was discovered.
"My Boyhood"
John Burroughs