Small stocky diving bird without webbed feet

Usage examples of dipper.

Report on the geological formations of the Kitchenerville gold fields, with special reference to those areas lying to the east of the Big Dipper Dyke.

Steve thought about the Hellmouth town pump and how that dipper drink Art had taken must have tasted.

There her platter was stacked with sliced meat, a dipper of redroots in gravy, a small loaf of bread, and a slice of something that looked like nutbread dipped in honey.

Within a matter of minutes, a sea of tents appeared in neat street-like rows, complete with cots, campstools, buckets and dippers.

I picked up the small churn of raw unpasteurised Trox milk that Amy had lied on oath was safe, and I took it outside and put it on the table near to Michael and, using a dipper, filled a glass and set it down.

This year was happy in unusual numbers of birds (nesting-time had been particularly favourable) and Stephen and Brigid wandered about the smooth hay-meadows, by the standing corn, and along the banks, he telling her the names of countless insects, many, many birds - kingfishers, dippers, dabchicks, and the occasional teal: coots and moorhens, of course - as well as his particular favourites, henharrier, sparrowhawk and kestrel and once a single splendid peregrine, a falcon clipping her way not much above head-height with effortless speed.

She tiptoed to hand dippers to ambulance drivers and of each she questioned, her heart in her throat: “What news?

Every so often another group of volunteers would come with buckets and dippers to offer fresh water from the new well that the pickaxes and shovels had hit two days before.

Many of the children, including Aaron, had the responsibility of carrying buckets of water and dippers around to the work crews.

If they did not, half the rifles would overheat and jam, dippers of water or no.

He'd been trying to choose between the big dipper, waltzer and dodgems: all parts of the vulgar fairground side of heaven's attractions and only a tiny proportion of what it had to offer.

From the apparent motion of the constellations across the sky, from the southern hemisphere constellations that she could make out, and from the Big Dipper lying near the northern horizon, she deduced that they were in tropicallatitudes.

From the apparent motion of the constellations across the sky, from the southern hemisphere constellations that she could make out, and from the Big Dipper lying near the northern horizon, she deduced that they were in tropical latitudes.

He stopped to stretch and yawn, and only then took notice that the Big Dipper and the North Star hung broad on the port beam, and that the yellow moon was sinking dead astern.

Every time I wanted to figure what was east or what was west it seemed to be noon, or cloudy, which was no help at all, or nighttime, and except for the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia's Chair, I was hopeless at stars, a failing which always disheartened Buddy Willard.