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
- 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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