dipper

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A man climbed into the wagon and scooped up a dipperful of whisky, holding it aloft before he drank The light was still uncertain, but the dipper was a bright, clear target.

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  1. noun One that dips, especially a container for taking up water.
  2. noun One of several small birds of the genus Cinclus that dive into swift-moving streams and feed along the bottom. Also called water ouzel.

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  • I think the sheep-dipper was one of the early arrivals. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
  • While very cold, the water she drank from the dipper was refreshing. —  Carr, John F, Kalvan Kingmaker (v1.0) (html).html
  • He then struck me in the face with the handle of his dipper (he broke his dipper at the first blow), and then I struck him two or three times with my dipper, battering it, and cutting him very severely on the left side of 'his head near the temple. —  Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point
  • We both drank deep from the dipper, then splashed it over our hands and faces. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
  • I was a snuff dipper, and smoking was so much more acceptable socially indoors, that I switched to smoking .... even had ashtrays in the class room for professors and students ... —  Victoria Advocate stories: News
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  1. from Middle English dippere (only as the name for a water-bird: see defs. 5 and 6, and cf. didapper); from dip + -er.
 

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