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/dˈɪpər/ Listen

noun

Dipper n.

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

(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

... showing to the north, and according to traditions said to be a harbinger of war, but when we went to look for it with our glasses it had gone down. We saw it on the evening of the 7th just south of the second star in the tail of the "Dipper" or Great Bear. Looking through my glasses, which were the most powerful on board, being more so than the ship's telescopes, I could see it quite clearly with a great tail stretching to the northeast. In a week or so it would be quite large. The weather continued bright and ...

— The Red Watch - With the First Canadian Division in Flanders • J. A. Currie

... there under the big dipper, on the great Arizona desert, the two friends met after ...

— Our Friend John Burroughs • Clara Barrus

... rate one-thirtieth our two-cent railway tariff. The dredging and clearing of the canals and water channels in and about Canton is likewise accomplished with the same foot-power, often by families living on the dredge boats. A dipper dredge is used, constructed of strong bamboo strips woven into the form of a sliding, two-horse road scraper, guided by a long bamboo handle. The dredge is drawn along the bottom by a rope winding about the ...

— Farmers of Forty Centuries - or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan • F. H. King

... of that month he looked out from his castle wall late at night and noticed the brilliancy of the stars,—also that the Great Dipper exactly overhung the valley of the Arno. At that same hour the astronomer Donati was sweeping the heavens with his telescope at the Florentine observatory, and it may have been ten days later that he discovered in the ...

— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns

... little tin dipper, eh? Passing everybody else a bottle and a rubber nipple! Everybody getting his, and me left out! All right. If that's political gratitude in these new times, go on with you medinkculum! And last year I snapped the six ...

— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day

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