dipper
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Or the dipper, a little bird Norwegians call “the Fossekall, the ‘Call of the waterfall,’” that once gave Mr. Macfarlane a change of mood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Another "dipper" is Leighton Lee, 51, from Porth, who said the feeling was "hard to describe".
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2023
Some Native American tribes believe the cup of the dipper represents a bear and the stars in the handle represent warriors who pursue it.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 23, 2023
Cresswell almost dislocates his standing ankle, spinning a dipper over the near side of the wall, just under the bar, and into the vicinity of the top corner!
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2022
We had a cunning little dipper we could send down into the pan on a length of picture wire.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
I can almost never pass one up, regardless of the "dippers" that accompany it, especially if there is a copious amount of cheese.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
Swimmers, bathers and dippers have been taking a chilly dip in the sea at Porthcawl and Tenby over the Christmas break.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2022
We ended our tour at Hallam Lake, admiring the fortitude of American dippers, bathing in a snow-banked stream.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2022
Combine crunchy vegetables — think carrots, cucumbers and radishes — with leafy ones, such as cabbage or little gems, and a few seasonal dippers, such as cherry tomatoes and sweet peppers.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2022
Worsley, Crean, Vincent, McCarthy, and McNeish frantically pumped and bailed with anything they could find—the cook pot, dippers, their hands—anything that would get the water out of the boat.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
