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Dipper

noun

A ladle that has a cup with a long handle.

A cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris. Synonym: Little Dipper.

A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major. Synonyms: Big Dipper, Charles's Wain, Plough, Wagon, Wain.

Small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage. Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, butterball.

Small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom. Synonym: water ouzel.

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"Dipper" Quotes from Famous Books

... I'm an old man, but I can help. She's my little gal, ye see. Hand me that there dipper of water; it'll keep her from choking, may be. Now! Keep cheery, Sene! Your old father'll get ye out. Keep up good heart, child! ...

— Men, Women, and Ghosts • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

... as he strolled back to the tents and stuck a tin dipper into a wooden pail near by for a draught of cold water that had lately been taken ...

— The Fiery Totem - A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West • Argyll Saxby

... is the upper layer of milk which has been removed after standing a certain number of hours in a milk bottle or any other tall vessel with straight sides. It contains most of the cream and varying amounts of milk. It may be removed by a small cream dipper which holds one ounce, or it may be taken off with a siphon, but it should never be poured off. To obtain seven per cent top milk which is the one most ordinarily used in the preparation of top milk formulas, ...

— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... Mrs Beane, "don't stand sniffing and snivelling there like a great bull calf. Take the tin dipper and fetch it full of clean water. Oh, Joe, Joe! It's too late. ...

— Our Soldier Boy • George Manville Fenn

... a pretty girl 'a was. But nothing came on't. A month afore we struck camp she married a tallow-chandler's dipper of Little Nicholas Lane. I was a good deal upset about it at the time. But one gets ...

— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy

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