dipper
Nouns
- (n) a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
- (n) a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris Little Dipper,
- (n) a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major Big Dipper, Charles's Wain, Plough, Wain, Wagon,
- (n) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, butterball,
- (n) small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom water ouzel,