"dippers" in the noun sense

1. dipper

a ladle that has a cup with a long handle

2. Little Dipper, Dipper

a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris

3. Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon

a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

4. bufflehead, butterball, dipper, Bucephela albeola

small North American diving duck males have bushy head plumage

5. water ouzel, dipper

small stocky diving bird without webbed feet frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom

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