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Dippers   /dˈɪpərz/   Listen
Dippers

noun
1.
A Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion.  Synonyms: Church of the Brethren, Dunkers.


Dipper

noun
1.
A ladle that has a cup with a long handle.
2.
A cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris.  Synonym: Little Dipper.
3.
A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major.  Synonyms: Big Dipper, Charles's Wain, Plough, Wagon, Wain.
4.
Small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage.  Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, butterball.
5.
Small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom.  Synonym: water ouzel.



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big dipper
double dipper
Little Dipper
skinny-dipper


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"Dippers" Quotes from Famous Books



... case of true friendship I ever knew," went on my host, "was a cordial intent between a Connecticut man and a monkey. The monkey climbed palms in Barranquilla and threw down cocoanuts to the man. The man sawed them in two and made dippers, which he sold for two /reales/ each and bought rum. The monkey drank the milk of the nuts. Through each being satisfied with his own share of the graft, they ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry
... him. There were no eyes for him. A very few stragglers moved unsteadily here and there; the great majority of the men were packed in a mass about the barrel. Tin cups, dippers, even buckets and pans ran from hand to hand, from those nearest the wagon to the clamorous fellows upon the outskirts of the crowd, spilling the liquor freely as they were ...
— Under Handicap - A Novel • Jackson Gregory
... the expectations of the Marquis, but the girl seemed equally attractive for her self-possessed manners and lively mind. The nobleman was charmed. On his way home he met a cart loaded with coconut dippers and he bought the entire lot and sent it as ...
— Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot • Austin Craig


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