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noun

Dipper n.

One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.

(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

... the Moon that sails through the sky Is known as a gay old skipper. But he made a mistake, When he tried to take A drink of milk from the dipper. ...

— A Hive of Busy Bees • Effie M. Williams

... Browning's companion. "I was out stargazing last night. Looked at the Long-Handled Dipper a long time, and it gave me an awful thirst. I've had it with me all day. Yes, ...

— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish

... the help of the Big Dipper, a part of the Great Bear, known to every country boy and girl in the northern half of the world. This is, perhaps, the most important star group in our sky, because of its size, peculiar form, the fact that it never sets in our latitude, and that of its stars, ...

— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... boulders. There are stone walls, and here and there are great flocks of sheep. The horses stop of their own accord at a lovely spot where they are used to getting a drink of cool spring water. Did any ever taste quite so good as that drunk from an old dipper after a long warm drive? The live-oaks and sycamores look too inviting to be resisted, and we get out to explore while the horses are resting. Underneath the evergreen shade we pick up some of the large pointed acorns and carry ...

— A Truthful Woman in Southern California • Kate Sanborn

... pair of brass tongs was stuck in the ashes and the fire blazed merrily. At the side of the fire-place, on the floor, was a tray filled with tiny tea-cups, a pewter tea-caddy, a bamboo tea-stirrer, and a little dipper. The priest having finished sweeping the ashes off the edges of the hearth with a little whisk of hawk's feathers, was just about to put on the tea when "suzz," "suzz," sang the tea-kettle spout; and then "pattari"—"pattari" said ...

— Japanese Fairy World - Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan • William Elliot Griffis

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