dippers Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun a Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion
   Church of the Brethren; Dunkers.
   
2. noun a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
   dipper.
   
3. noun a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris
   Little Dipper; Dipper.
   
4. noun a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
   Wagon; Wain; Charles's Wain; Big Dipper; Plough; Dipper.
   
5. noun small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
   bufflehead; butterball; dipper; Bucephela albeola.
   
6. noun small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
   dipper; water ouzel.
   

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