dipper

Plural: dippers

Noun

• a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
• a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris
• a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
• small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
• small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
• One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
• Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
• A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.
• The control in a vehicle that switches between high-beam and low-beam (i.e. dips the lights), especially when used to signal other vehicles.
• Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce.
• Someone who dips chewing tobacco or snuff.
• A pickpocket.
• A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.
• A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea.
• A Baptist or Dunker.
• A delivery bowled that curves into or away from the batter before pitching.
• pl. -S one that dips

Synonyms

Big Dipper, Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, butterball, Charles's Wain, Little Dipper, Plough, Wagon, Wain, water ouzel, pickpocket