ice cream maker

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ice cream maker (plural ice cream makers)

1. A machine used to make homemade ice cream.

   Synonyms: ice creamer, ice cream freezer, sorbetière

2. A company or person that makes ice cream.
   • 1922, Ice Cream Trade Journal, page 103:

     If your ice cream maker gives your laboratory analyst a sample of the complete mix at 8 o’clock, in just forty minutes the operator can tell him the exact butter fat and total solids content in the mix.

   • 1923, Milk Plant Monthly, page 55:

     The ice cream maker gave particular attention to the Progress ammonia or direct expansion freezer in 50 and 100 quart capacities shown in this booth and a new 60 quart H. Atkinson brine freezer.

   • 1985, Restaurant Business, page 176:

     An ice cream maker gives local school children a firsthand look at the ice cream process.

   • 1995, Lila B. Stair, Careers in Marketing, VGM Career Horizons, →ISBN, page 9:

     Ben & Jerry’s, the ice cream maker, gives away 7 1/2 percent of its pretax profits in support of environmental preservation.