'Dipper' definitions:
Definition of 'dipper'
(from WordNet)
noun
A ladle that has a cup with a long handle
noun
A cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris [syn: Little Dipper, Dipper]
noun
A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major [syn: Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon]
noun
Small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage [syn: bufflehead, butterball, dipper, Bucephela albeola]
noun
Small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast- flowing streams and feeds along the bottom [syn: water ouzel, dipper]
Definition of 'Dipper'
From: GCIDE
- Dipper \Dip"per\, n.
- 1. One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (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). [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]