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Dipper   /dˈɪpər/   Listen
noun
Dipper  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A small grebe; the dabchick.
(b)
The buffel duck.
(c)
The water ouzel (Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe.
(d)
The American dipper or ouzel (Cinclus Mexicanus).
The Dipper (Astron.), the seven principal stars in the constellation of the Great Bear; popularly so called from their arrangement in the form of a dipper; called also Charles's Wain. See Ursa Major, under Ursa.






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"Dipper" Quotes from Famous Books



... impulse of each undulation. Thus we held on till the heavy clouds discharged their loads, beating down the sea and half filling the canoe with rain water. While the Krooman paddled and steered, I conducted the bailing, and as the African dipper was not sufficient to keep us free, I pressed my Panama hat into service ...
— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer

... galloped, neck to neck and heel to heel, with the starry sky above and the long level of the plain before them. Mead glanced to the north, where the Big Dipper, pivoted on the twinkling pole star, was swinging its mighty course through the blue spaces of the sky, and said, "It's about midnight, boys." The dim, faintly gleaming, dusty gray of the road contracted to a lance-like point in front of them and sped onward, seeming to cleave the ...
— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly

... that was Karl Burrian, but he sang better. His name is Josef Tyssen. The John was Herman Weil. Salome was preceded by Feuersnot, the folks-tone of which is an admirable foil to the overladen tints of Salome. (By the way, the sky in the latter opera showed the dipper constellation, Charles's Wain. Now, will some astronomer tell us if such a thing is possible in Syrian skies?) Herman Weil was the chief point of attraction. As for the so-called immoral ending of the composition, ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker

... Tom a dipper of water, which quickly restored him, when, turning his still blanched ...
— The Boys of Crawford's Basin - The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado • Sidford F. Hamp

... expert in that other fine art of condensing work, and making it move in easy grooves. Her tea things she washed with her breakfast things, just setting the cups and plates in the sink for the night, pouring a dipper full of boiling water over them. There was no silver to care for, no delicate glass or valuable china; the very simplicity of apparatus made the house an easy one to keep. Clover was kept busy, for simplify as you will, providing ...
— Clover • Susan Coolidge


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