Definitions for dipper

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dipper dip·per

Spelling: [dip-er]

IPA: /ˈdɪp ər/

Dipper is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in dipper (deippr).

Definitions for dipper

noun

1. a person or thing that dips.
2. a cuplike container with a long handle, used for dipping liquids.
3. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. Big Dipper. Little Dipper.
4. Ornithology.. Also called water ouzel. any small, stocky diving bird of the family Cinclidae, related to the thrushes, especially Cinclus aquaticus of Europe and C. mexicanus of western North America, having dense, oilyplumage and frequenting rapid streams and rivers.
5. South Midland and Southern U.S. a person who uses snuff.
6. the group of seven bright stars in Ursa Minor resembling a dipper in outline.
7. the group of seven bright stars in Ursa Major resembling a dipper in outline.

Origin of dipper

1350-1400; Middle English: diving bird; see dip¹, -er¹

Examples for dipper

He flung the dipper from him and started toward the cabin on a run.

Penn couldn't stand that no more'n a dog with a dipper to his tail.

Most people smoke a dipper and chill, but I would smoke like six a night.

Barney reached for a dipper hanging on a nail beside the kitchen door.

"Very well; then I won't," added Fanny, throwing down the dipper.

She was watching the little girl, who was running into the house with the dipper.

This explained the absence of the rustic seat and the dipper.

It is called the dipper because it is shaped like a dipper with a long, bent handle.

There was a pail of water with a dipper in it on 351 a bench.

This star is the faintest of the seven which form the dipper.