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Dippers   /dˈɪpərz/   Listen
Dippers

noun
1.
A Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion.  Synonyms: Church of the Brethren, Dunkers.


Dipper

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: Little Dipper.
3.
A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major.  Synonyms: Big Dipper, Charles's Wain, Plough, Wagon, Wain.
4.
Small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage.  Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, butterball.
5.
Small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom.  Synonym: water ouzel.



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Little Dipper
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"Dippers" Quotes from Famous Books



... Two wagons filled with young people passed along the principal street at an early hour, raising a cloud of dust as they turned the corner where stood a guide-board pointing out the plain road to the pond. Onward rolled the two wagons, the tin-pails and dippers dancing and rattling in the rear, keeping time with the clatter of untamed tongues in the van. "Shall we call at 'Appledale?'" asked the driver of the first wagon, coming ...
— Be Courteous • Mrs. M. H. Maxwell
... soft-bottomed sluggish brook, where many shaved, and others to my amazement cleaned their teeth. For that ceremony I keep my canteen water, which is served out to us at the head of the company street in proper dippers by orderlies; it is all I shall have, I foresee, both for drink and for absolutely necessary washing. We have better holding-ground for our tent-pins tonight, but the sky is cloudless and again we have not trenched. There are northern lights—a change ...
— At Plattsburg • Allen French
... week the labor gangs grew, as the men were able to find places in the attacking line of the industrial battle. Great excavators stalked over the land, pulling themselves along by their dippers which bit out chunks of earth as big as a cart when they "took a-hold"; the smack of pile drivers, the thump of dynamite, and the whistle of dredges filled the air. Buildings sprouted like mushrooms; in the meadow, half a mile from ...
— The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans • Thomas Ewing Dabney


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