dipper

CEFRC1

/ˈdɪpə/

noun

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01
noun
A tool or container used for scooping liquid.
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noun
Extra detail
A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.

Examples

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

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Extra meanings

Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce.

In context

Ursa Major looks like a dipper.
chicken dippers
A chocolate dipper dips the cream centers into warm chocolate by hand; when taken out the creams are shaped [...]

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A chocolate dipper dips the cream centers into warm chocolate by hand; when taken out the creams are shaped [...]
1903, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, page 1189
When the engine runs the dipper dips in the oil once in every revolution of the crankshaft and the oil is splashed on the cylinder walls.
2001, Thermal Engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 472
It is doubtful if the Victorian Londoner needed any warning, for the artful mobsmen, toolers, whizzers and dippers, together with their stickman accomplices, were everywhere in the crowds, in the underground, on railway trains […]
1976, Michael Harrison, Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology, page 117

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From Middle English dippere; equivalent to dip + -er.