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
Birds including the curlew, nightjar, dipper, lesser black-backed gull and red grouse are also named.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
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
One threw a dipper of water on a dog that came from underneath to bark at the boy.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
I've been speaking to our players recently, and there's a growing thing about footballers scoring trendy goals - whippers and dippers - but he didn't think about that.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024
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
As for the dippers, the sky’s the limit.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022
Little dippers are also further away, making it hard, if not altogether impossible, for astronomers to capture a photograph to further investigate the dimming’s cause.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 14, 2022
That’s what she did, and stood there watching while I drank three dippers of water.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
