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Dipper   /dˈɪpər/   Listen
noun
Dipper  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.
2.
(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



... was eating she discoursed about herself, pleased at the interest this odd, dark-faced young fellow with the soft, drawling voice seemed to take in her. She had begun in a box factory, she told him. And then she'd been a candy-dipper. Now, you work in a lowered atmosphere in order not to spoil your chocolate. For which reason candy-dippers, like all the good, are likely to die young. Seven of the girls in Gracie's department "got the T.B." That made ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
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... what do you think? Last night that English boy, Charlie Thornton, asked me if I knew where Charles' Wain was, and when I said I didn't know, what do you suppose he showed me? Why, nothing but the Big Dipper up there among the stars. I told him he was mistaken and that nobody ever called it the odd name he had for it. But he said his mother called it that, and he wouldn't give it up. ...
— Classic Myths • Retold by Mary Catherine Judd
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... again towards the boxes; but this time, being reminded of them (I supposed), he rose and went over to see how Harris was progressing. The captain had never looked round; neither did he look at Santos. "A leetle dipper," I heard the latter say, "and, perhaps, a few eenches—" but I lost the last epithet. It followed a glance over the shoulder in my direction, and immediately preceded the return of ...
— Dead Men Tell No Tales • E. W. Hornung
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... steeper, and their sides are studded by great 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 them away as ...
— A Truthful Woman in Southern California • Kate Sanborn
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... pails and stood them on the porch; and then with a dipper in one hand and a goblet in the ...
— A Woman at Bay - A Fiend in Skirts • Nicholas Carter
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