1. A churn for making butter.
Usage: chiefly Scottish or dialectal
2. A harvest festival or celebration, especially in Scotland.
Usage: chiefly Scottish or archaic

1. 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.