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dipper [ˈdɪpə] n
1. (Cookery) a ladle used for dipping 2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Also called water ouzel any aquatic songbird of the genus Cinclus and family Cinclidae, esp C. cinclus. They inhabit fast-flowing streams and resemble large wrens 3. a slang word for pickpocket 4. a person or thing that dips, such as the mechanism for directing car headlights downwards 5. a small metal cup clipped onto a painter's palette for holding diluent or medium 6. (Historical Terms) Archaic an Anabaptist See also big dipper ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations dipper n (Tech, = person) → Eintaucher(in) m(f) (Orn) → Taucher m, → Tauchente f (at fair: also Big Dipper) → Achterbahn f (Brit, Aut, for headlamps) → Abblendschalter m How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The mowers from all sides, brought closer together in the short row, kept urging one another on to the sound of jingling dipper and clanging scythes, and the hiss of the whetstones sharpening them, and good-humored shouts. The teacher's desk and chair stood on a platform in one corner; there was an uncouth stove, never blackened oftener than once a year, a map of the United States, two blackboards, a ten-quart tin pail of water and long-handled dipper on a corner shelf, and wooden desks and benches for the scholars, who only numbered twenty in Rebecca's time. I took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; I took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot. |
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