Synonyms for dipper

Grammar : Noun

Spell : dip-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɪp ər

Définition of dipper

Origin : late 14c., as a type of diving bird, agent noun from dip (v.). As a ladle or long-handled utensil for drawing liquid, from 1783, chiefly American English. As the popular U.S. name for the asterism known in Britain as The Plough or Charles' Wain, attested by 1833.

noun ladle

Example sentences :

She was watching the little girl, who was running into the house with the dipper.
Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown

It is called the Dipper because it is shaped like a dipper with a long, bent handle.
Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America

Penn couldn't stand that no more'n a dog with a dipper to his tail.
Extract from : « "Captains Courageous" » by Rudyard Kipling

This star is the faintest of the seven which form the Dipper.
Extract from : « A Field Book of the Stars » by William Tyler Olcott

This explained the absence of the rustic seat and the dipper.
Extract from : « Rudder Grange » by Frank R. Stockton

He flung the dipper from him and started toward the cabin on a run.
Extract from : « The Man from the Bitter Roots » by Caroline Lockhart

"Very well; then I won't," added Fanny, throwing down the dipper.
Extract from : « Hope and Have » by Oliver Optic

Barney reached for a dipper hanging on a nail beside the kitchen door.
Extract from : « Make Mine Homogenized » by Rick Raphael

There was a pail of water with a dipper in it on 351 a bench.
Extract from : « Northern Lights » by Gilbert Parker

There ain't a dipper left in the ship, and the water pourin' in by the barrelful!
Extract from : « The Old Tobacco Shop » by William Bowen

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