Synonyms for dipper
noun ladlepickpocket
Word Origin & History
late 14c., as a type of diving bird, agent noun from dip (v.). As a ladle or long-handled utensil for drawing liquid, from 1783, chiefly American English. As the popular U.S. name for the asterism known in Britain as The Plough or Charles' Wain, attested by 1833.
Example Sentences fordipper
She was watching the little girl, who was running into the house with the dipper.
It is called the Dipper because it is shaped like a dipper with a long, bent handle.
Penn couldn't stand that no more'n a dog with a dipper to his tail.
This star is the faintest of the seven which form the Dipper.
This explained the absence of the rustic seat and the dipper.
He flung the dipper from him and started toward the cabin on a run.
"Very well; then I won't," added Fanny, throwing down the dipper.
Barney reached for a dipper hanging on a nail beside the kitchen door.
There was a pail of water with a dipper in it on 351 a bench.
There ain't a dipper left in the ship, and the water pourin' in by the barrelful!