dipper : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dipper	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for dipper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dipper n 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 Synonym(s): Little Dipper, Dipper a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major Synonym(s): Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage Synonym(s): bufflehead, butterball, dipper, Bucephela albeola small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast- flowing streams and feeds along the bottom Synonym(s): water ouzel, dipper
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dipper \Dip"per\, n. 1. One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (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}). {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}.