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Little Dipper   /lˈɪtəl dˈɪpər/   Listen
Little Dipper

noun
1.
A cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris.  Synonym: Dipper.






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"Little Dipper" Quotes from Famous Books



... little Mary Margaret. Little! Ah, that was just the trouble. Careful and steady and prudent as Mary Margaret might be, she was only twelve years old, after all, and there would not be another soul besides her and Nellie on the Little Dipper that whole day. Mrs. Campbell felt that she hardly dared to go away under such circumstances. And yet she must dare it. Oscar Bryan had sailed over from the mainland the evening before with word that her sister Nan—her only sister, ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 • Lucy Maud Montgomery



Words linked to "Little Dipper" :   pole star, polar star, polestar, Polaris, North Star, Little Bear, dipper, Ursa Minor, asterism



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