Word Finder - dipper

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One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).

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Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.

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A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.

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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.

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Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce.

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chicken dippers

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A pickpocket.

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A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.

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A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea.

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A Baptist or Dunker.

I take a dipper of wine and add it to the water.

Even the very sedentary dipper will descend its mountain stream to escape the worst frosts.

I told them that I drank at the pond, and pointed thither, offering to lend them a dipper.

The constellation's brightest star, Spica, follows the Big Dipper.

The opium must not be burnt or made too dry, but roasted gently till it looks like burnt worsted; every now and then he takes it away from the flame and rolls it (still on the end of the dipper) on the flat surface of the bowl.

They have a dipper to transfer the wine, and a somewhat smaller second barrel for the other share.

The family will be a familiar one to the pond dipper as it includes the larvae known as bloodworms.

Among the smaller birds may be enumerated finches, the siskin, bullfinch, pipit, titmouse, wagtail, lark, fine-crested wren, hedge-sparrow, corn-wren, nut-hatch, starling, swallow, martin, swift, thrush, butcher bird, shrike, dipper, yellow-hammer, ortolan and a warbler (Accentor alpinus).

Twisting it round and round he gets a large drop of the fluid to adhere to the dipper; still twisting it round to prevent it falling he brings the drop over the flame of the lamp, and twirling it round and round he roasts it; all this is done with acquired dexterity.

The Great Dipper was built in 1925 and continues to entertain families and roller coaster fans today.

On the big dipper (The girl who was death) 18.

My furniture, part of which I made myself--and the rest cost me nothing of which I have not rendered an account--consisted of a bed, a table, a desk, three chairs, a looking-glass three inches in diameter, a pair of tongs and andirons, a kettle, a skillet, and a frying-pan, a dipper, a wash-bowl, two knives and forks, three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp.

When it is roasted and rolled to his satisfaction he gently heats the centre of the bowl, where there is a small orifice; then he quickly thrusts the end of the dipper into the orifice, twirls it round smartly and withdraws it; if this is properly done, the opium (now about the size of a grain of hemp-seed or a little larger) is left adhering to the bowl immediately over the orifice.

Ptolemy catalogued 8 stars, Tycho 7 and Hevelius Of these, the seven brightest (a of the 1st magnitude, 0, y, of the 2nd magnitude, and b of the 3rd magnitude) constitute one of the most characteristic figures in the northern sky; they have received various names - Septentriones, the wagon, plough, dipper and Charles's wain (a corruption of " churl's wain," or peasant's cart).

Then he uses the flattened end of the dipper to scrape away any little residue there may be left around the orifice, and proceeds to prepare another pipe.