Meanings
plural ice-cream makers
- alternativeAlternative form of ice cream maker.
By the 1950s, large ice-cream makers were underselling small producers, and supermarkets switched to national brands.
2015, Andrew F. Smith, Sugar: A Global History, Reaktion Books, →ISBN3 more examples
What about homemade ice cream? Hard to beat occasionally. But don’t use an electric motor to churn it. Buy an ice-cream maker you crank yourself.
1989, Paul Brynteson, In Search of Total Health, Eddie Bowers Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 133But if the mailings are too infrequent you will lose potential orders – you need to keep your name in front of your customers and remind them that next time they want to buy an ice-cream maker or a bedspread it’s worth taking your catalogue off the shelf (where they stored it because it looked too good to throw away).
1998, Ros Jay, Profitable Direct Marketing, International Thomson Business Press, →ISBN, page 114The making of ice cream bonded us as a group, and soon everyone who came that night, even the bachelors, bought ice-cream makers.
1999, Reader’s Digest, page 60
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