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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dipper
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
big dipper
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ The descent, like a big dipper, is exhilarating but perfectly safe.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Big Dipper
▪ Gedanken wondered whether anyone ever fell off the Big Dipper.
▪ He made another friend, which was the Big Dipper.
▪ I can find the Big Dipper, but the North Star can be elusive.
▪ I put the stretcher under my arm and walked off toward the Big Dipper, in the direction of the tent.
▪ That's what you spotted on the Big Dipper.
▪ The black silhouettes of the maples showed against the sky near the Big Dipper, almost overhead.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the result is endlessly fascinating for dippers, with the kind of information included you simply can't find anywhere else.
▪ As you travel eastward the route joins the River Almond where dippers and herons are familiar sights.
▪ Here I would see many interesting birds, but the most attractive to me was the dipper.
▪ On many upland streams a large boulder will often be the chosen perching spot of the dipper.
▪ Served with a dipper pot of seafood sauce and brown bread and butter.
▪ The dipper is a typical bird of upland rivers and one species we had very much hoped to see.
▪ The descent, like a big dipper, is exhilarating but perfectly safe.
▪ Then the dipper birds would come wheeling over the dunes, skimming the foam, light as dry leaves.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dipper

Dipper \Dip"per\, n.

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

  2. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. A small grebe; the dabchick.

    2. The buffel duck.

    3. The water ouzel ( Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe.

    4. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dipper

late 14c., as a type of diving bird, agent noun from dip (v.). As a ladle or long-handled utensil for drawing liquid, from 1783, chiefly American English. As the popular U.S. name for the asterism known in Britain as The Plough or Charles' Wain, attested by 1833.

Wiktionary
dipper

n. 1 Any of various small passerine birds of the genus ''Cinclus'' that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom. 2 A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping out liquids. 3 (context slang English) pickpocket

WordNet
dipper
  1. n. 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 [syn: Little Dipper]

  3. a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major [syn: Big Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon]

  4. small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage [syn: bufflehead, butterball, Bucephela albeola]

  5. small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom [syn: water ouzel]

Wikipedia
Dipper

Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater.

Dipper (disambiguation)

A dipper is a passerine bird in the genus Cinclus

Dipper may also refer to:

Dipper (Chinese constellation)

The Dipper mansion (斗宿, pinyin: Dǒu Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the northern mansions of the Black Tortoise.

Dipper (painting)

An oil dipper is used to hold a supply of turpentine, oil or painting medium.

Used in oil painting, it can be clipped onto the edge of the wooden palette.

Category:Painting materials

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.